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IT was not shocking to learn last weekend that the minister of culture, gender, entertain...

IT was not shocking to learn last weekend that the minister of culture, gender, entertain...

Chief Parish Court Judge Chester Crooks, who yesterday ruled that former Education Minist...

Fraud accused Ruel Reid (left) and Professor Fritz Pinnock. Former Education Minister Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock are pressing ahead with their challenge of the Financial Investigations Division Act under which they were arrested on fraud allegations, in 2019. Senior attorney Hugh Wildman made the disclosure today after Chester Crooks — the chief parish judge for Kingston and St Andrew — declined to dismiss the fraud case against the men. Wildman had argued before Crooks late last year that the case against ex-Senator Reid and Fritz Pinnock, who is president of the Caribbean Ma...

Former Education Minister and Senator Ruel Reid to stand trial for fraud. (Photo: JIS) Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks has ruled that the fraud case involving former Education Minister Ruel Reid and his co-accused is properly before the court and should proceed to trial in due course. As a result of Crooks’ ruling in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court today, the matter was set for case management on July 27. Hugh Wildman had previously argued before Crooks that the case against ex-Senator Reid and Fritz Pinnock, president of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), should be thrown ...