IN the constituency of San Fernando West, where he is the sitting MP, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar called on Monday night for police to charge Faris Al-Rawi for witness-tampering in the Vincent Nelson matter. Addressing supporters on a political platform at Naparima College, she also called for the Commissioner of Police to investigate the roles
DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, will not apply to the Court of Appeal to have King’s Counsel Vincent Nelson’s conviction and sentence set aside. This is because Gaspard believes the grounds set out by Nelson were not justified or factually well founded. In fact, the DPP says he was not previously aware
PAOLO KERNAHAN FOR EVERY challenge facing us as a people, if we put our minds to it – we can forget them all. We've perfected sidestepping our troubles ever faster, swinging from one catastrophe to the next with a blinding pace and astonishing apathy. A lifetime ago I was in the grocery at Christmas time.
DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, says he needs more time to fully respond to attorneys representing convicted King’s Counsel Vincent Nelson. On March 29, Gaspard replied to Nelson’s attorneys who on March 15, called on him to take steps to have Nelson's conviction and sentence set aside, “in the interest of justice.”
CONVICTED attorney Vincent Nelson, KC, will benefit from yet another deferral of the payment of fines by the Judiciary. In March 2020, Nelson was sentenced by Justice Malcolm Holdip and ordered to pay $2.25 million in fines, nine months after he pleaded guilty to his role in an alleged conspiracy involving a series of financial