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Monday, May 19, 2025

AG tells PoS mayor: Stop illegal wrecking in city

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At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan has writ­ten to Port-of-Spain may­or Louis Lee Sing, de­mand­ing that the "il­le­gal" wreck­ing ser­vice and fee pay­ment be stopped. Ear­li­er this year, Lee Sing said ve­hi­cles il­le­gal­ly parked in the city would be im­pound­ed and a $1,300 fee would have to be paid by own­ers to re­cov­er their ve­hi­cles. This mea­sure has been se­vere­ly crit­i­cised by many peo­ple, in­clud­ing Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er. Ram­lo­gan said his let­ter con­tained a le­gal ad­vice from the So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al. He said he hoped "the may­or will fol­low that in­struc­tion and ad­vice be­cause he (his ac­tions) will ex­pose the State to risk of li­a­bil­i­ty from peo­ple who may sue us."

Ram­lo­gan stressed dur­ing yes­ter­day's post-Cab­i­net news con­fer­ence that Lee Sing's il­le­gal mea­sure "should come to an end" be­fore Car­ni­val be­cause it had caused a great so­cial dis­rup­tion. Ram­lo­gan said the let­ter was sent ei­ther late last week or ear­ly this week. He said if Lee Sing failed to heed the ad­vice, "I will have to con­sid­er whether a de­lib­er­ate act of a may­or to im­pose an il­le­gal di­rec­tive and act ul­tra vires the scope of his pow­ers amounts mis­con­duct in pub­lic of­fice." He said it would al­so have to be de­ter­mined if Lee Sing did not stop the ex­er­cise, whether oth­er op­tions for re­solv­ing it should be pur­sued. The AG said the So­lic­i­tor Gen­er­al's ad­vice was that Lee Sing's ini­tia­tive was il­le­gal.


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