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Donville Inniss’ File Missing from Mottley’s Red Bag

BREAKING: Alex Tasker ordered extradited https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/08/breaking-alex-tasker-ordered-extradited/

 

It is also a different version of how the story got out than what our own Attorney-General said last Thursday after the verdict was handed down. He said: “It is significant that the conviction came about because individuals who had knowledge of the events were prepared to speak out and to give evidence about wrongdoing.” The AG added: “This is something that is required at all levels in Barbados’ society whether dealing with the scourge of corruption or the scourge of gun violence.

Donville Inniss Case Points to Endemic Corruption in Barbados

The traditional media is off and running with the big headlines about the sentence federal District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto is scheduled to deliver today in New York in the Donville Inniss matter. It is the story traditional media will have a healthy appetite for because of flagging circulation.

Mia’s Red Bag has come up empty so far

 

The concern of the blogmaster confirmed in the deliberations during the Donville Inniss trial is the strong inference there is pervasive corrupt behaviour in the way business is conducted by some PUBLIC and PRIVATE officials in Barbados. Successive governments over the years have paid lip service to unearthing and punishing corruption even in the face of obvious indications of wrong doing. The Mia Mottley government is better placed than her predecessors given the unprecedented mandate handed to her government to do something about it. It is no secret however to those in the know that Donville and Mia are bosom buddies.

The following is a blog repost from January 20, 2020 which captures key concerns by the blogmaster, the late journalist Patrick Hoyos and the BU family.

Donville Inniss Case Points to Endemic Corruption in Barbados

The blogmaster found the Patrick Hoyos article to be – without prolix – a good summary of the Donville Inniss matter. Especially as it pertains to the inference other payments were made to Donville Inniss and that bribery by elected officials was commonplace in Barbados. Although we have the Attorney General et al saying that local laws would not have permitted prosecution of Inniss this position was challenged during the Inniss trial.

The blogmaster’s wish is that we have a dispassionate debate in Barbados and a call to action by our officials regarding the honest prosecution of public officials. It is ironic former Speaker of the House MICHAEL CARRINGTON and Adriel Brathwaite, former Attorney General showed support for Inniss by attending the trial in New York. CARRINGTON’s legacy will be that a High Court judge had to issue a court order for him to release monies due his client 70+ John Griffiths, the blogmaster will remember Brathwiate for promising to report to parliament the status of Mia Mottley’s qualification (LEC) to practice before the Courts of Barbados. He never did.

The time has come to arrest the moral and ethical rot- add criminal. We have started to experience the negative fallout of pushing our heads in the sand.

Time for the authorities to do a job.

Time for the Prime Minister, Attorney General and stakeholders to lead the charge.

Importantly, time for John Citizens to hold officials accountable.

Read full text of BU blog – https://barbadosunderground.net/2020/01/24/donville-inniss-case-points-to-endemic-corruption-in-barbados/

817 responses to “Donville Inniss’ File Missing from Mottley’s Red Bag”

  1. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Sargeant September 2, 2021 9:03 AM “@NO Remember he said he couldn’t get a flight.”

    Multiple numbers of my Bajan-Canadian crew came “home” for “summer” holidays. The retirees are still here, but the youngsters have gone back to their Canadian jobs. They got flights at very nice prices too. And the flights to and from were “rammed”

  2. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    Gline could be the first Non Resident HC

    BTW did he give up his Canadian citizenship? If he didn’t and gets to Canada before September 20, he could vote for his Candidate in Ottawa Centre

  3. David Avatar
    David

    Clarke finally off to Canada
    Barbados’ High Commissioner to Canada, former Barbados Labour Party parliamentarian Gline Clarke, finally left Barbados yesterday to take up the post to which he was appointed since September last year.
    Clarke, who represented St George North for 26 years, was picked by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to fill the diplomatic post left vacant after former High Commissioner Reginald Farley was appointed President of the Senate.
    However, his departure for Ottawa was delayed as a result of travel considerations associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Here, Clarke making his way through the Grantley Adams International Airport yesterday to board an Air Canada flight, accompanied by his 16-year-old daughter Glenisha Clarke ( right). (GC)


    Source: Nation

  4. David Avatar
    David

    Clarke looking to diaspora
    By Gercine Carter gercinecarter@nationnews.com
    Barbados’ new High Commissioner to Canada Gline Clarke promised to represent Barbados “as best as I can” before he flew out yesterday to begin his mission.
    Speaking to the Weekend Nation at the Grantley Adams International Airport minutes before his departure, he said he would be pitching to the “strong Barbados diaspora” in Canada that had “served Barbados well through the years”.
    Clarke also said he would be targeting trade and investment opportunities between Barbados and Canada since “we believe at this juncture there must be a fresh start because COVID has given us an opportunity to really showcase how we can move Barbados forward”.
    He suggested Barbados’ climate held good prospects for the development of medical tourism and creation of a niche market for that aspect of Canadian tourism business, since Barbados would likely be attractive to Canadians looking for destinations that offered great facilities for rehabilitation.
    “The job opportunities for Barbadians in Canada are significant once COVID is completed. We have the benefit of the farm labour programme, the hotel placement programme and the prospects for cultural industries. The Government is committed to ensuring that Barbados’ name and Barbados’ policies are pushed at this point in time.”
    The move to send Clarke to Canada was announced by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley late last year when she addressed the Barbados Labour Party’s St George North branch’s annual general meeting at St George Secondary School. She indicated then that Clarke would step down on September 30, 2020, from the seat he held since 1994.
    The veteran politician is no stranger to service in Canada and previously held Canadian citizenship, which Mottley said he had agreed to denounce prior to his appointment.
    Clarke said yesterday he had been asked by late Prime Minister Tom Adams to serve as vice-consul in Canada “when I was a young man” and he was again asked by late Prime Minister Owen Arthur, and now he has been asked by Mottley.
    “It seems to me that this has been my mission. There are certain things you cannot shy away from if it is God’s will. I will do my best,” he added.

    Source: Nation

  5. David Avatar
    David

    Tasker: It’s all lies
    All lies.
    That was how former senior vicepresident of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd (ICBL), Alex Tasker, described the evidence of the company’s former chief financial officer (CFO) Kamante Millar yesterday.
    “It seems to me that the case of the US government against me is one that is based on lies that the then CFO Ms Kamante Millar has told,” said Tasker.
    He has denied any wrongdoing as alleged in Millar’s affidavit in a United States court.
    “In my opinion, I was carrying out my duties. I did not conspire to launder money and I did not launder money.
    “In all my working life I have never received any benefit through laundering money. I have worked hard from the time I was 18 years old to achieve what I have today, always respectful and of sound character. In conclusion, Ms Millar lied to the US court,” Tasker told the District “A” Magistrates’ Court.
    In a statement from the dock, he admitted he and former Government minister Donville Inniss had been friends “for a long time” and would communicate via email and text message.
    However, he denied that his position as senior vice-president in charge of business development and marketing gave him any power to authorise the payment of money from ICBL.
    “I never did anything of that kind,” he said.
    That authority, he stressed, rested with the CFO, the chief executive officer (CEO) and the deputy CEO.
    Reading from a prepared text, Tasker said Millar lied when she described him as third from the top in the senior management team at ICBL.
    He said Millar, as CFO, was senior to him and she had “misrepresented the truth” when she said she had received instructions from him.
    “I was never in any position to instruct Ms Millar to carry out any function and I never did,” he said.
    Tasker also referred to Millar’s evidence in which she mentioned an August 2015 meeting, at which he was present, to discuss Donville Inniss.
    However, he said she “omitted to mention” that Inniss had produced an invoice in Barbados dollars payable to a charity.
    Inniss had delivered the invoice to him as a personal friend and he had handed it over to Millar, he explained.
    “It must be noted that the company had a history of making charitable payments to members of Parliament,” Tasker added.
    He told the court Millar also “failed to admit” she was the one who informed the meeting that “she would prefer if the whole matter was dealt with in US currency and that she requested that Mr Inniss provide a US bank account and submit an invoice in US currency”.
    He said he left the meeting, went back to his office, which was on a different floor from Millar’s, and relayed the message.
    Inniss later resubmitted the invoice which he, in turn, passed on to Millar.
    “We never had a discussion about it. I had no idea why the invoice was sent under the name of Crystal Dental Labs.
    “I never said anything about Mr Inniss needing the money for his son’s tuition. I never even had a discussion with Mr Inniss about needing money for his son’s tuition,” he said, as he concluded his statement by saying there were other instances of untruths in Millar’s testimony.
    (HLE)

    Source: Nation

  6. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Mr. Tasker’s testimony sounds convincing.

    ICBL’s organisational chart would verify whether or not Millar was senior to him.

    If she was actually senior and his position did not allow him to authorize payments from the company, then it would be highly unlikely he would have instructed her to pay the invoice

    But, Millar has already ‘saved her skin.’

  7. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    Appears my mixed up mood of yesterday was on the mark lol.

    Tasker did what he had to. Create doubt. And we now have another player ( a charity) to go along with consulting and political contribution as to what the money was for. By playing the “chain of authority” card, and without testimony from Innes, he may have created enough doubt.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    You are aware there is positional authority to be found on the org-chart then there are those with strategic influence.

  9. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    “There are certain things you cannot shy away from if it is God’s will. I will do my best,” he added.”

    Clearly NOT his first choice lol

  10. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @David
    Hence “and w/o testimony from Innes”.

  11. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Slightly amused that Gline Clarke flew out yesterday.

    You all would not allow the man to enjoy the weather, sun, sea and sand.

    If I was him, the first thing I would do is launch a search for NO, Hants and Sarge 🙂

  12. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    That org chart defense is good stroke by Tasker but will the Court accept it? It would have been even better if he could have provided a witness to corroborate that bit of his testimony.

  13. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @TheoG
    I would apologize to him as I was a bit misinformed, now I know that he was working from home for a year because of the pandemic 😊.
    As for Hants and NO, Hants in in the GTA and NO is in Muskoka ( I won’t give away the Lake), I can be found anywhere between Montreal and Niagara Falls.

  14. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @Sarge
    Fyi I’m on the east coast…since early July. And will return to well north of what is known as Muskoka
    Not unlike the NF-Montreal which for TheO is larger than the state of NJ…lol

  15. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @Sargeant wrote ” Hants in in the GTA ”

    TheoGazerts probaly think you mean I living in a car. lol

  16. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    I thought the G was for Glennis, maybe Gleenis the amazing?

  17. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ NorthernObserver thanks for reminding me that G was waiting for me on You Tube.lol

    You Tube
    Backstage special | 3 livestreams in 24 hours – Glennis Grace

  18. David Avatar
    David

    It’s up to a jury, says Acting DPP
    The issues in the extradition matter against Alex Tasker are for the determination of a jury and he should be committed to face trial in the United States.
    This was the submission of Acting Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale as the case against the former senior vice-president of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd (ICBL) continued in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court last week.
    Tasker, of Mayfair Terrace, Lead Vale, Christ Church, is wanted in the United States to face trial for conspiracy to launder money and money laundering between August 2015 and April 2016.
    “All of [defence counsel Andrew Pilgrim’s] utterances are to be made before a jury,” Seale argued. “The truth or falsity of a witness is for the province of a jury – who they believe and who they don’t.”
    He noted there were many instances where an accused, who had been committed to stand trial after a preliminary enquiry, appeared before a High Court and “oftentimes they are acquitted”.
    “But the question would be, is this court satisfied that the threshold had been met to move to the next stage? And we say yes,” Seale said.
    He conceded that former ICBL chief financial officer Kamante Millar could be described as “a person with an interest to serve”.
    However, he noted, if this was a trial in Barbados, the judge would have to give the required warning, spelt out by the Evidence Act, to the jury.
    “All of this goes to show you that there is still the jury. It has to go before the jury. How can you warn the jury about the evidence of
    a witness if there is no jury?”
    The extradition proceedings, he added, were akin to a matter before that trial stage.
    He explained prima facie was a low threshold but it was not for the proceedings to usurp the functions of a jury.
    “All we have is his words against hers and hers against his,” Seale said.
    “All I am saying is, however we look at it, it is a question of reaching that stage, that threshold that will cause for committal where he will have a trial where all the issues that he has put before this court plus more can be ventilated. It isn’t any unfairness to him.”
    Seale said the Crown, through the bundle of documents, had established a prima facie case against Tasker. “We have reached that threshold and I am submitting Mr Tasker should be committed for extradition.”
    Chief Magistrate Weekes will give his decision on Wednesday. (HLE)

    Source: Nation

  19. David Avatar
    David

    Pilgrim: A lack of evidence by the Crown
    Should former Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd (ICBL) senior vicepresident Alex Tasker be ordered surrendered to the United States based on the evidence of a “fraud who turned state’s evidence to save her own skin”?
    His lawyer Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim thinks not.
    “The question for the court is, do I believe the lying fraud who turned state’s evidence to save her own skin or do I believe Mr Tasker?” he asked.
    “We are submitting in this case there is no science, there is no DNA, not even the piece of paper that she claims. The only thing is her saying, ‘I decided to do this knowing it was fraudulent and illegal’.
    “So the question for the court is a witness, who by any standard is tainted, is the bulwark of the Crown’s case. They go high or low with her. If that is good enough for prima facie, there is nothing that can fail,” he said.
    Pilgrim said the case for the Crown rested “exclusively” on the evidence of former ICBL chief financial officer Kamante Millar which was contained in the trial of now convicted former Government minister Donville Inniss.
    The rest of the evidence against Tasker, he argued, was “hearsay at best”.
    “While there is a reference to emails and texts, their nonproduction means this court cannot be guided by references to the fact that they exist.”
    Pilgrim said those emails and texts would eventually confirm Tasker’s innocence.
    As he pointed to the “low level” of prima facie status, he also asked the court to determine what was sufficient to order Tasker extradited to the United States.
    “If it is correct to say that any accusation by a witness is sufficient, then dog is dead. But we will say and have said ‘she is lying on me’. Indeed, she is a liar on oath.”
    Pilgrim asked the court to weigh Millar’s evidence against the statement given by Tasker.
    “We know one of them is a liar. The very nature of what we call ‘state’s evidence’ is being a liar,” counsel said.
    (HLE)

    Source: Nation

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Not a big fan of extraditing our citizens to the US. I may be wrong, but I doubt if someone born in the US and of the ‘right color’ would be sent to our island.

    Not a fan of Jack Warner(TT) or Tasker, but wouldn’t send them anywhere.

  21. David Avatar
    David

    Barbados and the USA signed an extradition treaty.

    https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-barbados/

  22. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    The missing connector is the CEO Innes, who faces similar extradition proceedings in Canada.
    It would be relevant to discover her arguments against extradition. As CEO she cannot play the ‘chain of command’ card.

  23. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    She reported to the Board or Bermuda?

  24. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/19/extradition-hearings-for-huaweis-meng-in-canada-come-to-a-close

    Is ICBL CEO Innes next ?

  25. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Just my thoughts. Treaties can be signed, but the flow may not be 2-way.

  26. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @David
    You pick? I ‘believe’ Wight was both the CEO of the parent (Innes superior) and Chair of the ICBL board.
    The article I read is now behind a paywall…..
    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/01/14/former-icbl-officer-i-wrote-the-invoices/
    My ‘recollection’ is Millar testified she asked Innes if she (Innes) had cleared the matter with Wight (Superior or Board Chair?)

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    BF&M sells majority stake in Barbados insurer | The Royal Gazette:Bermuda Business

    http://ourac.royalgazette.com/re-insurance/article/20200903/bfandm-sells-majority-stake-in-barbados-insurer

  28. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    goes to “page not found” for me
    Your point?

  29. David Avatar
    David

    John Wight is/was a top BF&M man, parent of ICBL.

  30. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    So…you are confirming my belief…”Wight was both the CEO of the parent (Innes superior) and Chair of the ICBL board.”

  31. David Avatar
    David

    BREAKING: Alex Tasker ordered extradited

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/08/breaking-alex-tasker-ordered-extradited/

  32. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Congrats to our Supreme Leader! This is another milestone in the fight against the DLP.

    I hope, however, that new arrests will soon be made for the August riots in the inner city.

  33. David Avatar
    David

    The matter will be appealed based on the report.

  34. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ David September 8, 2021 4:01 PM

    That doesn’t impress me at all. The defence is weak and our government is determined to crack down on the DLP.
    It will end like it did with the Don.

    David, remember: we owe our American partners a FAVOUR for the BionTech-Pfizer doses.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    If Tasker wins his appeal it will drain him financially. It probably already has with the fees already paid.

    Extradition order to US

    Tasker’s lawyer to challenge decision in Court of Appeal
    by HEATHER-LYNN EVANSON heatherlynevanson@nationnews.com
    FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT of the Insurance Corporation of Barbados Ltd. Alex Tasker was ordered extradited to the United States to face charges of money laundering by the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
    But the United States cannot touch him in the next 15 days and his attorney, Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim, has declared he will challenge the extradition order at the Court of Appeal.
    Tasker remains on bail until he appears before that appeals court as Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, Alliston Seale, did not object to his release.
    The United States had asked that Tasker, of Mayfair Terrace, Leadvale, Christ Church, be extradited to face trial for conspiracy to launder money and two counts of money laundering between August 2015 and April 2016.
    Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes, who delivered the afternoon decision, said his task was “rather straightforward”.
    “The case really is the USA, who has brought Mr Tasker here, involves three things that they have indicated to this court that he should be brought to them for – conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of money laundering.
    “The matter involves the Crown, representing the requesting state, saying that there are allegations against Mr Tasker in that he did engage with others in activity which violates both US and Barbados law,” the Chief Magistrate said in his summary of the matter.
    He said the allegations were that Tasker, former Government minister Donville Inniss; former chief executive officer of ICBL Ingrid Inness and Kamante Millar, the company’s former chief financial officer, conspired to facilitate certain transactions by paying, to Inniss, sums of money for consultancy purposes which were never delivered.
    “Of course, for me here to make a determination as to whether the matter should move forward I can go into the principle of duality. We already know there is a prima facie case to be established by those representing the US government,” he said, adding that the duality principle related to where an alleged offence in one jurisdiction had a similar analogous crime here.
    “The court has to ask, did Mr Tasker have knowledge of the plan to pay money to then Government official Mr Inniss who would have been subject to the (US) Prevention of Corruption Act,” Weekes said, adding he was grateful for the information provided by Tasker from the dock.
    However, Chief Magistrate Weekes stressed: “The proceedings are not a trial. These proceedings operate on the bundle sent to the court.
    “On the standard available to the court I am satisfied that the bundle would have set the nature of the conspiracy of the parties by virtue of how the monies ended up in the United States.
    “I am satisfied in relation to the duality of the Prevention of Corruption Act
    and our Money Laundering Act.
    “The entire series of transactions, as submitted before me, satisfies this court that Mr Alex Tasker should be committed for surrender to the United States.”
    However, Chief Magistrate Weekes advised Tasker that under the law, his surrender could not take place until 15 days had passed.
    The Chief Magistrate further advised him that under the Section 19 of the Extradition Act, he could either appeal or file a writ of habeas corpus.
    Pilgrim, who represented Tasker in association with attorney Neville Reid, immediately indicated he would be appealing the decision.
    And after Seale, who appeared with Senior Crown Counsel Oliver Thomas, did not object to bail, saying Tasker had faithfully attended every hearing, the Chief Magistrate allowed Tasker to remain on $200 000 bail. His passport remains in the custody of the court and he will continue to report to the Glebe Police Station every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday while on a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.
    Meanwhile former Minister Donville Inniss who was convicted on similar money laundering charges in relation to US $36 000 and connected to ICBL is due to be released in April 2023. He started his prison term on July 30.
    His co-accused Ingrid Innes, former chief executive officer of ICBL is facing an extradition hearing in Canada in January 2022.


    Source: Nation

  36. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Some may find satisfAction in the extradition of Tasker. Some may point out the existence of extradition treaties.

    I am not convinced that the US would extradite one of its citizens as quickly as we did Mr Tasker.

    In the ‘oppose to this extradition’ column, I am signing my name.

    GoB is outsourcing the investigation and punishment of corruption.

  37. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    The US has been trying to get Jack Warner since 2015 and he is still in The Land of the Hummingbird or Scarlet Ibis (these birds always come up). What Inniss was accused of is peanuts when compared to Warner, however Warner has deeper pockets than Tasker and the T& T Courts move like molasses (sound familiar?) but T & T is not subject to the CCJ- dem Trinis smart- If you build it the other idiots will come.

    To put it plainly Tasker has been accused of aiding and abetting a criminal act but the Judge put the kibosh on his defense by not allowing his legal team to call a witness as I’m sure his legal representative would want to know if the witness signed a deal with the US Justice Dept. about non prosecution.

  38. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @TheO
    If you are correct on the outsourcing, there is/was a solution? I tend to agree if Tasker had been charged in Barbados the DOJ might drop their charges.
    To have Tasker found guilty in a US Court and Innes not be extradited, would be a potential nightmare situation.
    She, due to chain of command, is guilty. Tasker has a potential out, it wasn’t his idea, in fact, he didn’t know the details.

  39. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ The OGazerts September 9, 2021 8:29 AM
    “GoB is outsourcing the investigation and punishment of corruption.”
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Precisely!

    And thank Go(o)dness for Uncle Sam!

    Also the thirst for revenge by humiliated Charlie H!

    Who is next to feel the sword of Lady Justitia? Greenverbs??

    Sometimes the OECD ‘blacklisting’ of a budding banana republic in the international financial circles can work wonders for its economic salvation.

  40. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    ” Ingrid Innes, former chief executive officer of ICBL is facing an extradition hearing in Canada in January 2022.”

    Ingrid Innes is CANADIAN citizen.

  41. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    And @Hants fyi, the Canadian extradition process has a third, political leg. Should the court findings recommend extradition, it HAS to be approved by the Minister in charge (AG? I think). If the Minister says NO, it is no. Also, the contents of the extradition hearings can be “sealed” (not made public)

  42. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    Since Canada is also known to extradite foreigners to the USA, many DLP grandeees can presumably only travel to CUBA or the other pepper islands.

    In general, the immigration authorities should check the papers of all DLP members in the USA and Canada. Are these migrants even there legally? They are, after all, members of a party that is committed to corruption.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    Trinidad is a Republic.

  44. Barbados Underground Whistleblower Avatar
    Barbados Underground Whistleblower

    @TheO
    If you are correct on the outsourcing, there is/was a solution? I tend to agree if Tasker had been charged in Barbados the DOJ might drop their charges.
    To have Tasker found guilty in a US Court and Innes not be extradited, would be a potential nightmare situation.
    She, due to chain of command, is guilty. Tasker has a potential out, it wasn’t his idea, in fact, he didn’t know the details.

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Alex Tasker is a conman and was a Digicel fixer and kickback artist long before ICBL.

    His pretend innocence is a crude joke.

  45. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Oh Canada.

    ” If Holmes rules in favor of extradition, the final decision will then be made by Canada’s justice minister. Both decisions can be appealed by Meng’s legal team, which observers of the case have said means it could drag on for years.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/19/huawei-cfos-us-extradition-hearings-in-canada-end-ruling-date-set.html

    observers of the case have said means it could drag on for years. Can work for Ingrid too.

  46. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Hants
    observers of the case have said means it could drag on for years. Can work for Ingrid too.
    +++++++++++++
    Only if Ingrid has the resources that Meng has

  47. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Life goes on

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/09/09/icbl-reports-strong-first-quarter/

  48. David Avatar
    David

    @Hants

    It would be nice to know how much government business ICBL has on its books.

  49. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    @ David September 9, 2021 10:47 PM

    Surely, there are zero kick-backs now. Our cabinet ministers are women and men of outstanding integrity, carefully selected by our Supreme Leader.

  50. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    An Ig Nobel Prize awarded to Pavlo Blavatskyy, an economics professor at Montpellier Business School, garnered the Economics Prize “for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption” (Econ. Transition Institutional Change 2020, DOI: 10.1111/ecot.12259).
    https://cen.acs.org/people/awards/2021-Ig-Nobel-Prizes/99/i33

    Being thankful this morning that we have a set of mostly skinny, mostly young politicians. Keep it so guys and gals. We love you skinny.

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