DESPITE Government’s clear denial of any political interference in the arrest of firearm dealer Brent Thomas in Barbados, the UNC has once again publicly accused the government of playing a role in the matter. In a release on Saturday morning, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar accused some members of the TTPS executive and members of the
FORMER CL Financial jefe Lawrence Duprey has been ordered to pay the conglomerate, on trust, US$139,416,295, which represents the proceeds of a deal he cut in 2009 with Proman Holdings (Barbados) Ltd for shares of the group’s crown jewel, Clico Energy. Justice Devindra Rampersad made the order on Friday. In September 2021, Rampersad reserved the
A firearm instructor from Chaguanas has received the green light from the High Court to pursue a judicial review claim against the Ministry of National Security for failing to provide him with information relating to the audit of the police’s firearms registry. On the same day he granted leave to another firearms dealer with a
A HIGH COURT judge has granted leave to the wife of the former head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), Mark Hernandez, to challenge the failure of the Ministry of National Security to provide information relating to the setting up of a committee to audit the police's firearms registry. In a ruling made in
THE PRIME Minister and the National Security Council (NSC) have been ordered to pay 50 per cent of former police commissioner Gary Griffith’s legal costs for his partial success over plans to lay the executive summary of an audit into the police firearms registry in Parliament.