There’s an ongoing battle for ownership of the mega-million dollar newspaper, Newsday. The company launched by Daniel Chookolingo in 1993, is getting no media publicity because two years after its launch, the daily immediately became the fastest selling newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago outstripping the then 30-year old Trinidad Express and the mighty Guardian which was then over 75 years old. Both newspaper and their vast billion dollar media outfits have remained silent since the case was filed in the High Court in 2014.While Newsday’s up-to-date value remains shrouded, there was a valuation done a decade ago which put its worth at over $200 million dollars. Sources close to Mr Chookolingo says this is a bogus value which was given by the Steve Castagne controlled board to buy out minority shareholders to gain full control of his company.
First Published: 14th April 2025
Why The Election Was Called On 28th April
Judiciary Exposed For Their Links with The PNM, Elites And Court of Appeal Has Now Openly Broken Laws For The PNM & Friends After Bending the Rules For Decades
Actions Precipitates Constitutional Crisis
The Election Was Called Since The CJ Could Not Guarantee 3 Judges of The COA Would Take Fraudulent Orders From The Top
White Color Criminals Opt To Use Judiciary Instead of Guns
The PC Ruling has eliminated the need for an investigation into the CJ but no action by the PM
C.J. Ivor Archie Deborah Peake Stuart Young, PM
Could Not Guarantee 3 Judges A Case of the Tail wagging New leader of T&T’s
of COA Would Follow Directives the dog crooked elites like Peake
An intervention by the Court of Appeal has illegally delayed an Order that will show without doubt that the PNM and their crooked dealings have now made T&T a pariah state.
An appeal by Daniel Chookolingo against an Order by the High Court Judge Kangaloo, which was due to be heard by the Court of Appeal on 11th April, after he challenged a decision by Justice Kangaloo for her decision to send the case against him to trial when the entire trumped up case against him had collapsed before her. The case involves multiple issues involving wide ranging corruption by attorneys, auditors and directors based on a corruption report Chookolingo filed to the police and other agencies on 1st April 2024 and involves the theft of hundreds of millions by senior PNM figures.
As a result of the report, senior PNM activists including attorney Michael Coppin and Dawn Ford (sister of Daniel) sued Chookolingo for trespass to a property which he legally occupied as the sole executor of the estate of his father, Patrick Chookolingo. The case was fraudulent and bogus from the get-go. Dawn Ford featured predominantly in the police report with a couple of her siblings.
Mr Chookolingo’s appeal to the Court of Appeal was filed on 13th March 2025 and sought an order quashing the Orders of Justice Kangaloo to proceed to trial and that the entire case declared a nullity.
Rule 64.9(4) of the CPR (laws governing the practice and procedures of the courts) directs the court to hear all application 28 days after they are filed, which in this case was 11th April. There has not been a hearing and TTJF was told that this situation is highly illegal and smacks of more misbehavior in public office of all those responsible for it. Two weeks ago CJ Archie was rebuked by the Privy Council for misbehavior in public office, a criminal offence. The Prime Minister has failed / refused to initiate an investigation as per Section 137 of the Constitution.
TTJF was reliably informed that the appeal of the Chookolingo case and the breach of the CPR by the courts could only have been authorized by the CJ, which puts him further in the firing line.
Daniel Chookolingo,
Made Police Report
The dismissal of the case would have shown massive complicity and conspiracies by the following Hence The Refusal To Hear Before 28th April:
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The High Court / Justice Kangaloo
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Deborah Peake, main PNM attorney
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Michael Quamina, Chairman of State-owned Heritage Petroleum and attorney for Dr Rowley
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Michael Coppin, former PNM senator and “fix it’ agent
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Mark Superville, Auditor at PKF, an International auditing firm
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Directors and other company officials involving Newsday shares that were stolen
The corruption report filed by Chookolingo shows rampant corruption by Internationally recognized auditors, PKF Auditors, 3 attorneys: Deborah Peake, Michael Quamina, both senior counsels, Michael Coppin, directors and employees of the Newspaper Group to steal hundreds of millions in assets. If this becomes public information before the election on 28th April it could throw the country into a tailspin causing an international incident showing the rule of law no longer applies in T&T.
Indeed, the apparent decision by the CJ Ivor Archie led the judiciary to play politics with the laws and the Constitution shows how the current government has stuck their corrupt, dirty hands into the affairs of the nation’s auditing fraternity to manipulate various companies and most probably extends to state controlled / owned corporations as the shareholders of Clico have been complaining of, as well as various parties in the A& V Oil scandal where over $100 million dollars were handed over to A&V, owned by a friend of Dr Rowley. Indeed, money laundering of all the stolen hundreds of millions is also being looked at since the spiriting of these funds overseas to private banking accounts is another allegation and therefore the banking sector may also be complicit as they are the checks and balances for illegal money laundering. It has been reported that Newsday shareholders who received tainted, illegal money which the company called ‘dividends’ were told not to pay income tax on them. There has not been a response from the BIR, a government agency.
Chookolingo’s last email message to the Fraud Squad with valuable updates on 7th April 2025 also went unanswered.
Crooked PNM politics has literally taken over the entire country where professionals in all spheres of life have been compromised and the judiciary is now in cover-up mode by breaking the law (CPR rule 64.9(4)) and refusing to have a hearing on the case that would have exposed the entire shenanigans of the PNM and their elitist friends ever since the formation of the party.
The Chookolingo case which shows the illegal activities involving Newsday, were uncovered through the newly released AGM minutes showing that for over ten years not a single annual financial report was filed but the crooked players produced bogus documents to show that illegal dividends were paid to shareholders. Chookolingo showed the company is now under the control of top PNMite Steve Castagne, attorney Deborah Peake SC, attorney Michael Quamina SC, former PNM senator Michael Coppin and most notably Mark Superville from the international law firm of PKF. PKF international has been notified of the illegal activities of their offices in T&T, also without reply from them.
TTJF understands that the top law enforcement agencies including the DPP has the authority to demand details of the corruption contained in the report and collaborate with the BIR and other agencies to get to the root of the report that has implicated so many.
In any event, the report is not sitting well with those named including Deborah Peake, Michael Quamina, Michael Coppin and Mark Superville from PKF, who all stand to be disbarred from practicing their respective professions. If they were indeed innocent they could have filed a defamation / libel matter against Mr Chookolingo but after a year this has not happened.
All these professionals conspired to misinform shareholders by producing false reports and documents that the Newsday assets were only worth $5million when in actuality it was worth hundreds of millions. The hundreds of millions of dollars were spirited away by the group and blame was placed on previous directors and employees. One employee, Mrs Khan, successfully challenged them in the Industrial Court and won $200,000 for unfair dismissal, when she was blamed for a number of false narratives so the shares could be stolen.
Meanwhile, investigators have informed Mr Daniel Chookolingo of the serious implications of this case if it ever comes to a hearing, since many professional persons may end up in jail including company directors, attorneys and auditors and have advised him to keep a low profile until then.
The case before Kangaloo has been earmarked by a number of irregularities including a decision by Justice Kangaloo not to issue a written or formal Order and refusal to provide transcripts of the proceedings. A case of misbehavior of office was filed against her.
The case has only proceeded to this point due to the tenacity of Mr. Chookolingo because he feels the elites have trampled on citizens for far too long and has made it his personal mission.
TTJF will also tell the country that the corruption that is exposed here also extends to other professionals and we intend to interview Ronald Heeralal, a chartered Surveyor and former Commissioner of Valuations, as to how he could value a triplex house ( 3 apartment house) and land in Diego Martin at $1.1 million in which he describes one of the 3 units that make up the building as an annex, when there is no annex.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
Meanwhile, Mr Chookolingo has given directions that a number of international bodies are alerted to the major corruption issues that his case raises. The organizations are:
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The UN Office of Legal Affairs.
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Human Rights Council and its special procedures
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United Nations Regional Anti-Corruption Office
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International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACCC)
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FBI anti-corruption offices
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Transparency International
