(From left) Senior PNP members Colin Campbell, Portia Simpson Miller, Robert Pickersgill and Phillip Paulwell. The Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom-based Privy Council has decided that former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and other senior members of the People's National Party (PNP) must give testimony in open court in relation to the now 14-year-old Trafigura matter. The Privy Council handed down its decision on Monday morning in a 21-page judgment which was published on its website. In rejecting the appeal filed by the lawyers for the PNP officials to testify in open court, the Law Lords of the Privy Council pointed out that "There was no material before the court to lead to the conclusion that a public hearing might jeopardise the investigation in The Netherlands, or any subsequent investigation or proceedings which might follow in Jamaica".