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Barbados ranks high in the region and the world in incidence of colon cancer, and in light of this, insurance companies should be covering the cost of screening. That is the opinion of medical director of Surgical Solutions Inc. Barbados, Dr Sahle Griffith, who raised the point during a discussion organised by Cancer Support Services at the Barbados Yacht Club on Saturday. Griffith pointed out that Barbados had the “eighth …
The High Court has granted an interim injunction in favour of surgeon Dr Sahle Griffith which prevents the authorities from charging him criminally in the death of Warren Mottley, brother of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.This latest move follows Coroner Graveney Bannister’s ruling in late December 2022 that Dr Griffith and anesthesiologist Dr Nigel Farnum were negligent in Mottley’s death.After two days of legal arguments by the parties involved, Justice Barry Carrington on Tuesdayhanded down his verdict in the preliminary matter which is in place pending the outcome of a judicial review of Coroner Bannister’s ruling.Just days before Christmas, the coroner found the doctors, who were in charge of Mottley’s care leading up to his passing, criminally negligent in his death. In fact, Magistrate Bannister said the conduct of both doctors was “so bad in all the circumstances” that it would amount to a criminal act and that they were “negligent and concerned in the cause of his de
One of the doctors accused of gross negligence in the death of Warren Mottley, the younger brother of Prime Minister Mia Mottley, is seeking judicial review of the decision by Coroner Graveney Bannister.Through his legal team, Dr Sahle Griffith, principal surgeon at the privately-owned Surgical Solutions Inc. (SSI) where Mottley had a procedure done in 2021, also wants the entire coroner’s inquest quashed.Last December, Magistrate Bannister found Dr Griffith and anaesthesiologist Dr Nigel Farnum, who were in charge of Mottley’s care leading up to his passing on June 29, 2021 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), to be grossly negligent in his death.“Looking at the evidence and looking at the parties involved in the care of Warren Mottley, I find the conduct of Dr Griffith and Dr Farnum was so bad in all the circumstances to amount to a criminal act and omission and that it was grossly negligent and concerned in the cause of his death,” he said at the time.
The year 2022 was one of landmark judicial cases.
It started with the constitutional challenge to the snap general election called by Prime Minister Mia Mottley, two years before it was constitutionally due. The action brought by attorney-at-law Lalu Hanuman on behalf of Philip Catlyn, challenged Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s decision to call the election while the COVID-19 pandemic was raging.
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