More waiting for Trafigura ruling
Published:Friday | February 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Today’s expected ruling on the application filed by lawyers representing former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and other senior officials of the People's National Party (PNP) in the Trafigura case has not materialised.
Lawyers in the case say they were informed that the judges are not ready to hand down judgement and need more time.
No deadline has been communicated.
The court heard submissions on February 8 and had reserved judgement until today.
The lawyers are challenging, among other things, a decision by the Supreme Court to make an order that Simpson Miller, Phillip Paulwell, Robert Pickersgill, Colin Campbell and Norton Hinds can answers questions in open court from Dutch investigators probing the $31 million donation to the PNP administration in 2006.
That ruling was made by former Supreme Court judge Justice Lennox Campbell last year June.
Dutch firm Trafigura Baheer made the donation to the PNP-led administration while the Jamaican Government had an oil-lifting agreement with the company.
Dutch firms are prohibited from making donations to foreign governments.
Dutch investigators want Simpson Miller and the other PNP officials to answer questions in public about the donation.
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