On the heels of the Appeal Court overturning the ruling of Justice Frank Seepersad on Tuesday, President Anthony Carmona yesterday swore in former journalist and deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo and former Cayman Islands solicitor general Jacqueline Wilson as Puisne Judges.
The ceremony took place at the Office of the President yesterday with Chief Justice Ivor Archie overseeing it.
Archie did not take any questions from the media on the recent no- confidence motion and calls for his resignation by the Law Association, but assured that “all matters will be addressed in due course.”
In congratulating both newly-appointed judges, Archie said the most recent round of appointments by the Judicial Legal Services Commission (JLSC) came to a memorable and “very commendable close.”
“For many who are unfamiliar with their most recent career, I don’t know that we understand the calibre of candidates who have now agreed to offer their services to T&T,” Archie said.
Carmona, in his brief address, warned that the “arrows and slings” will come their way but added that he remains gratified that given their experience, knowledge and competence “that they will be able to lead from in front.”
Wilson has 26 years experience as an attorney in the public sector of T&T, the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands. Her international service includes extensive experience in constitutional, administrative and public law.
Waterman-Latchoo began her career as a journalist, moved to a position of communications manager at First Citizens bank in 2001, then decided to study law. She was called to the Bar in October 1998 and began serving as a prosecutor in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2001, where she rose from State Counsel I to Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, prosecuting in magistrates’, high and appeal courts.
In 2014 she became a High Court Judge in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court assigned to St Vincent and the Grenadines and also served as Chairman of the ECSC Judicial Education Institute since March 2016.
