Ramesh leaves for Europe to be legal consultant
By AZARD ALI Friday, June 11 2010
RAMESH LAWRENCE MAHARAJ has given up local politics for a while to take up a consultancy post in Europe where he will devote the rest of his legal career in the fight against corruption.
Maharaj left for London Wednesday afternoon, but before his departure, he told the Newsday that he wished Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Partnership Government well in the coming years, and the time had come for him to move to a different level of struggle for justice.
Speaking to Newsday from the airport in a telephone interview, Maharaj said that he was off to a country in Europe to advise a particular government body there how to tackle corruption “and institute good governance”.
The former Attorney General who served in the United National Congress Government, failed to become part of the Partnership Government in the May 24 General Election, when he was bypassed as the candidate to contest the Tabaquite constituency.
He had told Newsday after then that he had several job offers in Europe as a legal consultant at a fee rate of US$4,000 per day.
As he waited in the lobby for the BW flight to Heathrow, Maharaj said there was an ironic twist to his new consultancy job in Europe, in that the issue of government officials holding dual positions, was among matters on which he would advise.
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