Dominican born Reginald Armour has been sworn in as the new Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Legal Affairs of Trinidad & Tobago replacing Faris Al-Rawi in a major Cabinet reshuffle on March 16, 2022, by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
Armour is an experienced Lawyer based in Trinidad and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2003 by the President of Trinidad & Tobago.
He was head of Marie de Vere Chambers in Port-of-Spain consisting of a Practice of eight self-employed independent Attorneys, originally founded in the late 1980s by the late Frank Solomon SC.
Armour is specialized as an Advocate in the areas of commercial law, labour relations constitutional and public law and, as consultant Counsel to his clients.
He has wide Caribbean legal practice and, has represented clients before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and, Courts of Appeal and High Courts across the Caribbean.
He is a past President of the Law Association of Trinidad & Tobago and had chaired the Council of Legal Education, the regional legal body under whose auspices exist the three Caribbean Law Schools in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and The Bahamas.
Armour served as acting Justice of Appeal in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, an acting High Court Judge of the Supreme Court of Trinidad & Tobago, and is a former member of the Law Reform Commission and the Legal Aid Authority among others.
In 2007, he was appointed to serve as Tribunal Counsel to the 2007 Mustill Tribunal and in 2012 by the Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court as Tribunal Counsel in St. Lucia to the Stollmeyer Tribunal. Both Tribunals were established to investigate and report on judicial misbehaviour.
Armour has also written on public law, labour relations and other topics.
He was chairman of Dialogue Solutions Ltd and other boards (including GML’s Board up to 2017) and is married and the father of two daughters.