The Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago’s membership voted against a motion of No-Confidence in Attorney General Armour, following a debate on Friday. 

The motion called on AG Armour to resign due to his disqualification by a Miami Court in the State’s Piarco International Airport corruption matter.

The no-confidence motion received 234 votes in its favor and 317 against, while the second motion received 241 votes for and 310 against.

In June, Attorney General Armour broke his silence amid calls for him to step down, denying he willfully attempted to perverse the course of justice.

He explained that while he swore in an initial affidavit that he served only as a “junior counsel” to former finance minister Brian Kuei Tung, he later recalled his role was far more extensive.

However, AG Armour said he was never given the opportunity to file a second affidavit to correct the record.

Earlier this month, Mr. Armour had been disqualified from representing T&T in the Piarco Airport corruption case in Miami, for his repressentation of Mr. Kuei Tung in a case 14 years ago.

“While I must continue to restrict my comments on the matter to avoid prejudicing those proceedings, I consider the concerns being expressed to be plainly legitimate and that I ought therefore to respond to them in greater detail, to the extent practical. I have not done so until now because of my continuing perceived need to be circumspect and which I have already stated, because the order disqualifying me from participation in the Miami proceedings is under appeal and therefore sub judice, and partly because I was called away from Trinidad and Tobago on urgent, unrelated government business,” he said in a statement on June 21st.