Submitted by a BU family member
It seems that, having failed miserably in his efforts to acquire Kingsland Estates Limited and to drag Barbados’ court and government and people through the mud in the Ontario courts, Canadian (Albertan) Peter Andrew Allard is attempting now to sue Barbados under a Canada – Barbados bilateral trade agreement.
The attempt to subvert and use the Canada-Barbados bilateral agreement is not new for Peter Allard. Indeed, back in 2005, just after Madge Knox lost her Privy Council appeal, Allard engaged counsel from the Ottawa office of prestigious Canadian and international law firm Gowling LaFleur Henderson LLP to bring just such an action, not in respect of Graeme Hall, but Kingsland Estates Ltd. He couldn’t make it stick then and his chances are no better now.
Allard bases his case on Graeme Hall and, Canadian that he is, attempts to tar Barbados in the eyes of the Canadian public with not looking after the ecosystem of Barbados and that this has impacted negatively on his investment in Graeme Hall (which has been on the market for sale for about 2 years now at an asking price of Bds$24 million. He is now asking for US$35 million and involving Barbados in yet another costly and unmeritorious case.
However, as BU family member Pat has pointed out, Allard should start his crusade in his own country and his own province and stop minding the business of Barbados.
Pat, never known for the mincing of words, says:
// October 29, 2009 at 11:30 PM . Peter Allard never gives up. He hitting out at Barbados and the pollution by the sewerage treatment plant. Well, let me tell Allard, to just look at Ottawa. Every time there is a large rainfall, hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage is pumped into the Ottawa River.
This is disturbing because towns downstream – Wendover, Hawkesbury, Alfred, etc. get their drinking water directly from that same river. The City was fined last year by the Province, but the practice has not stopped. This means that all the beaches are closed for weeks at a time because of the high e-coli not only in the water, but in the sand as well where the water rises when it rains.
Allard should also look at the Alberta Tar Sands, where oil is being extracted to feed the American behemoth. He should go document the environmental damage being done from those operations.”
Well said, Pat and it can be added to.
Allard and his employees at BFP and Keltruth have taken issue with our own Royal Barbados Police Force, claiming that it is not just ineffective, but totally corrupt. Maybe he should start looking at corruption within the law enforcement agencies in his own country, Canada. Go work on those. Many cases, the most compelling of which is the murder of native-Canadian Dudley George at Ipperwash by a subsequently convicted member of the Ontario Provincial Police during an OPP operation and the (unproved) allegations of implication in this murder of then Ontario Premier Bill Davis. And many others like it.
Which brings us to Nelson Barbados and Graeme Hall’s own in-house policeman (retired) the shadowy and illusive former Toronto police officer, Donald Best.
DONALD ROBERT BEST is the sole listed officer of Nelson Barbados Group Limited, clearly a shell company set up solely to sue Barbados, its officers and many of its citizens and to try to bring them into international disrepute in order to go behind the decision of the Privy Council that denied the lands of Kingsland Estates to Peter Allard/Madge Knox. And at the same time to drag Barbados’ name through the mud.
To date, the case has cost Barbados and its citizens over $3 million and, having won the motion against Ontario as a jurisdiction and the appeal having been dismissed with costs, the costs in this case are now to be decided.
Due to the extraordinary conduct of Nelson’s counsel, K. William McKenzie of the firm of Crawford McKenzie McLean, Duncan and Anderson (whom we will discuss later in this and other reports in some detail), counsel for Barbados and others have decided to pursue this law firm and McKenzie for costs, in the event that they cannot be got from Nelson Barbados and its sole officer, Donald Best, and to force Nelson, through the Ontario courts, to reveal the names of its shareholders and financial backers so that they too can be pursued for costs.
So, what do we know of this Donald Robert Best, other than what is provided in Wikipedia? Nothing you say? Well, you are right! BUT it is quite a lot of nothing.
Mr. Best, a frequent visitor to Barbados, is known to stay in Barbados either at a private residence at Chancery Lane or at a small guest house/hotel in the same area close to Long Beach. Mr. Best would appear to have enjoyed an extremely close connection to the Graeme Hall Nature Reserve and its chairman, Peter Allard.
Counsel for Barbados, our PM, CJ, A-G and other officers, as well as many of its corporate and private citizens, have hired an Ontario firm of private investigators to track Mr. Best and they have come up with some startling information.
There is a dearth of meaningful information about Donald Robert Best. Particularly, it is seen that he has taken extraordinary care FOR SOME YEARS PRIOR TO THIS ISSUE WITH NELSON SUING BARBADOS AND ITS CITIZENS to secret his home address from all and sundry. He was in hiding LONG BEFORE this case started. Instead of a home address, his history is replete with rental drop box numbers as follows:
427 Princess Street, Suite 200, Kingston, Ontario.
250 The East Mall, Suite 1225, Toronto, Ontario
250 The East Mall, Apartment 1225, Etobicoke, Ontario
250 The East Mall, Suite 1715, Etobicoke, Ontario.
113 Dunlop Street East, Unit 1928, Barrie, Ontario.
40 Coldwater St E, Orillia, ON, not a drop box, but an address he shared, until very recently (at least officially) with the law firm of Crawford McKenzie McLean Duncan and Anderson LLP, counsel for Nelson Barbados Group Limited and its non-corporate, non-entity fake precursor, Nelson Barbados Investments Inc.
Motor vehicle license searches for Donald Robert Best do not provide a residential address, as they are required to by law. Instead, Donald Best has provided an address which, if you look at the list above, is eerily familiar. It is 122-250 The East Mall, Apartment 1225, Etobicoke, Ontario. This address, in all its Best-manufactured glory, is that of a mailbox at UPS Store No. 122 located in the Cloverdale Mall in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, Ontario. It is neither apartment nor suite and cannot be used for a residence. Equally, there is no telephone number (not even a cell phone number) and no fax or even an e-mail. That from a man who has made a living out of internet piracy.
As has previously been pointed out on BU, searches on the Internet on such sites as Canada 411 have been fruitless. BU reported all that was known about Donald Best at
http://bajan.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/nelson-barbados-group-ltd-vs-barbados-and-othersthe-other-side-of-the-kingsland-estate-court-matter-part-xvii/ . All that is known other than that, is the following:
FULL NAME: Donald Robert Best
DATE OF BIRTH: June 7, 1954
ONTARIO DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER: B2825-17375-40607
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS: Toronto Police Association (and Allard’s BFP and Keltruth mouthpieces have the gall to critisize our RBPF??!!) which gives his former and long-abandoned address of 123 Mountain Park Road, Hamilton, Ontario AND NO CURRENT ADDRESS.
It is the considered and expert opinion of the private investigator (and BU has a copy of the report in order to support its claim of fair comment, should anyone be thinking of making any complaints) that Mr. Best has deliberately taken extraordinary steps for a number of years in order to conceal his whereabouts. Wonder why?
Since Mr. Best is a habitué of Barbados, are there any of BU’s readers who may be able to assist in tracking down Mr Donald Best, please either post the information here for all to read or alternatively send it by e-mail to any one of the defendants’ counsel that Keltruth has been so obliging as to list for us all in the past. If you prefer not to have to brave the cyberspace premises of Keltruth, please be advised that Barbados, our country, is represented in Ontario by Mr. Lorne Silver of the law firm of Cassels Brock (and we are indebted to Keltruth for this information) and his e-mail address, which we have obtainedon the internet from the Cassels Brock website, is: lsilver@casselsbrock.com.
What everyone is probably longing to know is why Mr. Best deems it necessary to hide his whereabouts so manically. We have a pretty good idea, but the truth may well be even stranger. We know that:
- * he is a former Detective Sergeant with the Toronto Police that, he testified under oath in 2004 that he left he left the Police in order to take over the family business because of the death of his father – so we encourage disaffected siblings to come forward;* he is the most notorious deep-cover satellite piracy investigator in Canada and Florida – so if any satellite people want to come forward, please do;
* he was the primary investigator in over a hundred anti-pirate decryption actions launched by satellite television companies Bell ExpressVu (now called Bell TV) and DirecTV and smart card manufacturer NDS Group (formerly News Datacom, NDC) in the pies of all of which the Allard family (as in Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary) are reputed to have their fingers – let us hear from any of those adversely affected by Mr Best‘s activities;
* he is a Certified Fraud Examiner – only in Canada.
* he developed some condominium projects in Barrie, Ontario during the late 1980s and early 1990s and owned a commercial flooring company in that city – any comments from those in that area; and
he is a close friend and former witness of K. William (‘Bill’) McKenzie of the law firm of Crawford McKenzie McLean Duncan and Anderson LLP.
There is an unsupported rumour that Mr. Best resides in Miami Dade and is a close friend of Kathleen Davis (nee Knox) the daughter of Madge Knox. Madge Knox is herself now facing an action in the Barbados High Court for fraud.
Mr Best and his cohorts (including the Knox family) have used certain blogs to drag the name of Barbados through the mud, while hiding themselves beneath rocks, down sewers and gutters and behind UPS drop boxes. Now their cover appears to be coming to an end, as we raise public awareness.
Watch this space for a lot of updates, including a very revealing and fully supported exposé on other Allard associates.
For the time being, just log on to the website of Crawford McKenzie McLean Duncan and Anderson LLP. You will find no photographs or CVs of its solicitors, unlike those that you will find in most Canadian law firms like Fraser Milner Casgrain, Heenan Blaikie, Cassels Brock etc. Even the small law firms have those, but not Crawford McKenzie McLean Duncan and Anderson LLP. Modesty? SURE!
Then, go on the web and see if you can find a photograph of Peter Allard – you may, but no more than one. Then try to see if you can find any background information on Allard’s “consultant” at Graeme Hall, Stuart Heaslet, other than his association with Graeme Hall. It would appear that this middle-aged man in his 50s has sprung full formed from under places we know not of and we do not know what he looks like. So, while speaking authoritatively on matters ecological in Barbados, we have no clear idea of what his background is that qualifies him to speak – or even what he looks like. When Heaslet, in his snidely and secretively taped conversation with Peter Simmons talks about future ecological ventures in Barbados, he makes the comment, as if it means something, “You’ve got Stuart Heaslet”. But just who the hell IS Stuart Heaslet? Is Stuart Heaslet, like Nitin Amersey, an Allard man with no practical qualifications other than a university degree (in business, of course) and practical experience in making shirts and underwear who is suddenly, like Amersey, pitch forked into heading an ecology-oriented business?
Amersey now heads an outfit called Environmental Solutions (another Allard satellite based in the USA? – we merely ask) and has sworn affidavits in the Nelson Barbados affair in a matter with which he has no connection or standing whatsoever (nor any knowledge) as the Ontario courts have pointed out in their published judgments.
Amersey, a former Toronto-resident, appears to have surrendered all his Canadian holdings to his wife. Divorce? Once again, we ask. Or is it a matter to engage the Ontario-registered attentions of Donald Best? Or maybe Canada Customs and Revenue Service? This is not an accusation, merely a request for information. Enlighten us, Mr. Amersey. We will give equal prominence to your explanation. And apologise for any mis-impression (if any) our question may cause.
But, let us not forget Mr. McKenzie’s “student-at-law” in the Nelson Barbados case, Marc Lemieux, who, as we have pointed out is as shadowy as Best and McKenzie and Heaslet and Allard himself and whose activities have been the subject of a report in the Globe & Mail for very strange goings-on in Egypt that included the involvement of members of Canada’s diplomatic mission to Egypt – strangely similar to the incredible actions by a member of Canada’s mission to Barbados carried out on behalf of Allard and published by BU as a public domain document provided as John Knox’s exhibit “P” to his affidavit in the Nelson Barbados action in Ontario. Modus operandi operating here, or not? Once more, we ask.
There is a rumour circulating that we can easily obtain confirmation for that Nelson Barbados relies for its standing to bring its case in Ontario on its supposed acquisition of Madge Knox’s Kingsland shares. We know that there is currently a part-heard action for fraud before the Barbados courts to have any transactions in respect of those shares and their transfer by Madge Knox set aside on the basis of fraud. Nelson Barbados has not entered an appearance through counsel as interested parties in that matter. BUT PETER ALLARD HAS. In the person of Mr Mohammed Khan, attorney-at-law, formerly of Inn Chambers, the nest of Knox attorney, Alair Shepherd. We impute no wrong-doing, merely we point our a coincidence and this is a matter of Barbados High Court record and, if challenged, we will document and prove it.
In the next weeks, a catalogue of infamy will be revealed here and will become known worldwide as, with the assistance of court documents, we set about correcting the false impressions given of us as a nation by certain allegedly Allard-enfranchised, Knox-operated blogs. We are encouraged to expect that certain organs of the international fourth estate will also now join in where BU has led and use their considerable resources and contacts to reveal what Allard is so careful to try to conceal. That they are not bound by the constraints imposed by membership of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Barbados Bar Association will become apparent.
SO, IF ANY OF BU’S READERS CAN THROW LIGHT ON THE ACTUAL WHEREABOUTS, RESIDENCE, TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS OR EVEN CELL NUMBER OF DONALD ROBERT BEST, LET US KNOW.
Let us delve into the affairs of the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary and the backgrounds of the players it shares with Nelson Barbados Group Ltd.
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