St. George’s, March 1, 2010 – Former Attorney General Jimmy Bristol has reiterated charges that the country is being run by a group of non-elected advisors. “They’ve been given a role that’s too great. There’s nothing wrong with having advisors but not to the detriment of the operation of your cabinet,’’ Mr. Bristol said Monday on a local television show, “Watch Dog.’’ It was his strongest comment yet on the advisors, whom he initially described as the “Second cabinet.’’ Mr. Bristol, a lawyer by profession, was appointed Attorney General in July 2008, shortly after the election victory of the National Democratic Congress led by Prime Minister Hon. Tillman Thomas. A year later, the Attorney General was asked to resign. He allegedly used stationery of the Attorney General’s office to write a letter in a personal matter involving a family member who had run afoul of the law in the United States. After demitting office, Mr. Bristol asserted that he was the target of the so-called “Second Cabinet’’ who wanted him removed as Attorney General. He still holds there is this “other body’’ which is having more influence on the decisions of government than the cabinet of Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. “Yes, there are people advising the Prime Minister to the detriment of the function of Cabinet,’’ Mr. Bristol contended. “I’m firm in that view. It is clear the government is stymied and there is, in fact, this group of advisors I refer to as the Second Cabinet. That’s a fact. They run the country and that is not right.’’ Godfrey Augustine, host of “Watch Dog,’’ said he knew for a “fact,’’ and was prepared to “openly’’ defend his claim, that one of the influential people behind the government is former Prime Minister George Brizan. Mr. Bristol said he was unaware, and was only hearing for the first time,the existence of what one newspaper has called a “Gang of Four’’ in cabinet. “What I can say is that cabinet is supposed to be a democratic institution of a government, and that people will have different views and so forth. But I would not be surprised if persons feel is affected by their inability to function as they assumed they would be once they’re in cabinet,’’ said Mr. Bristol. “I can understand that because I felt the same way myself.’’ Mr. Bristol, who has returned to his private law practice, said he would like to see the best for Grenada. “I would really like the government pull its socks up,’’ he said. “The people voted you in and we shouldn’t lose that opportunity and destroy the hopes of the people by not functioning properly.’’