ST JOHN’S (CMC): Prime Minister Gaston Browne has dismissed calls from the Antigua and Barbuda Bar Association (ABBA) to retract comments in which he threatened action against a sitting judge over what he described as lenient sentencing. The ABBA yesterday urged Browne to “withdraw the threat” and publicly affirm that immigration or other executive powers would not be used “to influence, intimidate, punish or remove a judicial officer because of decisions made in the lawful exercise of judicial office”.