There is absolutely no doubt that Attorney General Dale Marshall has the best interest of Barbados at heart. But the road to hell is often paved with good intentions. While one is apt to compliment Prime Minister Mia Mottley for her forbearance with some of her colleagues, it would be somewhat disingenuous to suggest that Mr Marshall’s tenure as the Government’s chief legal officer has been stellar.There have been a number of situations over the past two and a half decades where the Office of the Attorney General has been called into question. And on many of those occasions the St Joseph MP has been at the helm of the watch. Under the leadership of late Prime Minister Owen Arthur an attempt by the government to pass amendments to the Road Traffic Act through Parliament was hurriedly aborted after it was found that the legislation was fraught with error. Mr Marshall was Attorney General at the time. That legislation did not see the light of day until the Arthur Government had been defeated. Just before the 2008 general election a Bill was brought to Parliament in an attempt to appoint a number of acting public servants, in a clear breach of the Separation of Powers doctrine. A private member of the Bar Association saved the day on that occasion.
