More Criminals Named Who Help The One Percent Control T&T
 

• Hefty Penalties and Jail are for Directors …not the company

• Crooked Underbelly of State Exposed

• Newsday Shareholder Hart Died in Suspicious Circumstances

• CJ Goaded into action by One Percent

• In Strange twist, Express Now Prints Newsday

 

                    

 

 

 

 

 

Dawn Ford                    Joyce Sinanan                Cindi Da Costa

Crooked Chairman       Needed the money         Devoid of grey matter

 

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CJ Ivor Archie                          Judge James Aboud              Jerry Chin Lee

Broke Rules                             High Ranking One Percent     Castagne Enabler

 

In keeping with promises, TTJF is now naming more criminals that have helped Steve Castagne to illegally gain majority shares ownership in Newsday. Castagne was himself described as a criminal mastermind based on previous revelations made right here on this site, see column ‘who is Steve Castagne’. The three directors of CHL, the Holding company of the former Choko newspaper empire, was brought to a premature end at the hands of Dawn Ford, Joyce Sinanan and Cindi Da Costa, 3 of the unlikeliest directors in all of T&T. Of the 3 directors, Ford and Da Costa never held a job before the board appointment but made wild accusations and grandiose promises to unsuspecting shareholders, none of who had a clue save one or two. It was a massive con job. The clueless trio unceremoniously and permanently shut the once thriving, decades old Mirror and Sunday Punch newspapers in 2011 without telling many of the shareholders fearing a backlash. But Ford never stopped bragging about her ability even in the face of selling the valuable Newsday shares for $8 million. Throughout, she kept telling the squabbling and disparate shareholders how great the company was doing but it was coming to an abrupt end but her lies had caught up to her when the dividends dried up (some think by design to force a sale) and she told them in 2021 it was better to sell for $8 million or get nothing. Her usual backers bought that story but many did not. Only part of the hefty dividends from the 40% Newsday shares collected were ever paid to shareholders and that the squabbling shareholders were on the verge of kicking her back to Canada. Previously, she never explained a secret deal with Maxie Cuffie, former MP and minister, where it is alleged millions was lost in a misadventure to lease the Mirror even though the former manager advised against it. She told shareholders if they wanted a Cuffie audit, it will mean reduced dividends as it would come from any possible payment. But shareholders found out lately that the real reason she didn’t do a Cuffie audit was because it would have exposed and reveal the disgusting fact that there was never a company audit in all the years she pretended to run the company. Yet she paid dividends. Dividends are paid from profits and one cannot pay dividends without an audit showing a profit and this would have exposed the board’s criminality and then some. A few gullible ones lapped that up as she continued to promise them a cut in the $100 million when she sold the Newsday shares for $100 million dollars. The dissenting shareholders had no clear leader and Ford would constantly interfere in any move by them to coalesce and remove the incompetent, illegal and bungling excuse for a board. The suggestions by a few shareholders to appoint an ‘outside’ board was constantly shot down by Ford saying such a move was too expensive since she was doing it “free of charge”. The usual suspects voted to keep her on in the face of the ongoing and glaring criminality. Her actions have now exposed the BIR for their part in why the Board did not step in sooner. Did a high ranking government official intervene? For many years minority shareholders have been saying that the former Choko newspaper was being run by the Newsday directors, something that Choko himself spent a couple of weeks in jail for exposing. Besides that, those in the know are aware this how the One Percent affiliated companies with their interlocking directors operate?

Sadly, all this was taking place after CHL shareholders knew fully well that she tried to sell the entire company, Mirror, Punch, equipment and the super valuable Newsday shares, for $8.5 million dollars in 2013. When Ford was reminded of this fact during her second bid to sell the assets to Steve Castagne, she wrote the shareholders telling them she didn’t remember any of that. All this took place in full view and approval of Joyce Sinanan and Cindi Da Costa while they actively helped Ford in her criminal endeavours, making them active accomplices and law breakers and therefore criminally liable.

Joyce was hand-picked by Dawn Ford from the staff of the company because staff owned 1/8 of the company; she was the company’s most junior employee and therefore expendable. Marlene on the other hand was protected. Subsequent to the 2022 fire sale, various reports were made to the Director of Public Prosecution, the police authorities and the Board of Inland Revenue etc. Annual statutory accounts were never done for the 12 years as Ford kept bull shitting shareholders and Ford’s answer was to take her to court if anyone had a problem. It appears that Sinanan and Da Costa still don’t appreciate the full extent of the laws they broke as they keep referring shareholders questions to Dawn Ford as they were incapable of answering anything independently. The fact that Ford has set-up a new home in Canada has still not sunk in to this pair of accomplices. They were reminded that fines and jail were personally payable by the criminally negligent directors and not the company. The fines to the various authorities could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there is also the jail time. The company cannot go to jail , but Joyce Sinanan suddenly became nervous when she found out the truth; that the various authorities could make an appearance at her home. She was told that no one could visit her home and not to worry. Nothing is further from the truth. She has no passport or visa and must stay here and face the music.

The decade-long wait to finally sell the Newsday shares for a measly $8 million (for the second time) was all due to the outstanding court matter filed by Daniel Chookolingo, Newsday’s founder. Any sale before the court decision was foolhardy, as it looked likely from the evidence, because if Chookolingo was successful, the Newsday share purchase would have been money lost.

But then the illicit intervention of CJ Archie and his band changed all that. CJ Archie, Justices Jones and Moosai, unlawfully hearing of former Judge turned attorney, Raj Joseph, thereafter dismissing Chookolingo’s claim for the 4th time.

CJ Archie, Justices Jones and Moosai actions compounded the wrongs committee by Justice Aboud, after Aboud’s now infamous judgment when he dismissed Chookolingo’s claim while making grievous and utterly dangerous comments not associated with the action. Not so strangely, Aboud was soon thereafter promoted to the Court of Appeal by the JLSC led by CJ Archie.

At the time of the CJ’s unfortunate intervention, Daniel Chookolingo said he just about had enough of this toxic activity involving the judiciary and their obvious attempt to railroad him and steal the company. Almost $200 million dollars in dividends were said to be paid out over the period so the stakes were also extremely high. More importantly, the man at centre stage was Steve Castagne, who was the campaign manager for Government Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, the only person PM Dr Rowley allows to act as PM in his absence. Was this newspaper medium another one used to subtly, or not so subtly, support his underling, Imbert and the party? This seems to be a no-brainer bearing in mind that the Express now prints Newsday and both companies have been breaking the law since it is not stated at the back page footnote who the printer is, as required by law. It is no surprise that the relevant State agency has not intervened. Chookolingo said this is further proof that there is a colossal conspiracy run by the new Massa, AKA the One Percent, to manipulate all the news in T&T, and no self-respecting newspaper would have their competition print their newspaper especially if you have your own printing press. You can read more about this the CJ’s intervention at New Call To Impeach CJ Archie on this site.

Were these 3 senior Judges (CJ Archie, Jones and Moosai) acting to protect any future appointments judges usually get from the State? Their actions need explanation especially since Justice Jones has since landed Chairmanship of the Police Service Commission (PSC), previously an independent body but now seen as a way to control the police service particularly since the Bliss Seepersad incident in October 2021. If 3 senior judges can allegedly misbehave in this manner, what about junior judges under their control? Remember who he people are in charge of the JLSC.

Marcia Ayers-Caesar is an example to all judges. Marcia is now a private legal consultant since as a former judge she cannot appear before the T&T courts. She was removed because the CJ did not vet her workload before approving a promotion to the high court. The CJ did not have to answer for that imbroglio either.

So, a good question is if the CJ has such power over very senior appellate judges (Jones and Moosai) what about the lower ranks? We await the outcome of that investigation, and whether it is going to happen under this PM.

What was so important that CJ Archie was goaded into ‘action’ that he couldn’t wait for the case to go through the proper process? Was it the fact that the case was already a decade in the system and Justice Aboud’s alleged shenanigans were on the verge of being ruled upon by the Privy Council? The CJ’s actions have now created a Constitutional crisis of immense proportions that the PM can no longer ignore as it represents an existential threat to the good governance of the already fragile State. This was why Chookolingo has asked for police protection measures to be put in place as his ‘untimely’ demise is probably on the lips of many people to see if this will happen without a resolution to the Pegasus and the CJ Archie investigation.

Since there was an obvious level of impatience with the lawsuit filed by Daniel Chookolingo, Steve Castagne could not wait because the Chookolingo clan was about to boot Ford out of CHL. Ford has recently gone on the offensive against Daniel but she is at a loss to explain why she didn’t bring her mauvais langue, gossip, spite and ill will to court. Like all her other malicious gossip against former employee Mrs Khan who she summarily and unjustifiably fired. Chookolingo commented that this is not the behaviour for the hallowed halls of the courthouse, but must be kept in the CHL boardroom and the directors’ clubhouse where they share fine Scotch and cocktails and each other’s company and laugh and giggle about ripping off the country. TTJF says similar advice should be heeded by the CJ and his judges.

But Ford’s days of lying to shareholders are finished and Castagne knew that so there was a rush to buy the Newsday shares from CHL before she got booted. Is this why CJ Archie was goaded to act and break the law?  The imminent investigation that the PM must initiate will answer that but he has so far made no such order for that investigation and has kept it secret from public.

But back to Dawn Ford and her illegal, criminal sale of company assets to Steve Castagne. During the intervening 6 years prior to the sale in 2022, the most amazing thing is that Ford had been travelling to T&T from her base in Canada, while she made sure she remained in charge of valuable CHL media organisation, specifically the Newsday shares. Apparently it was only valuable to Ford and Castagne while shareholders got small, insignificant money. Ford continued with her scam to the end when she told shareholders to maintain their ‘faith’ in her as the sale was imminent, that ‘Castagne was awaiting on a final legal outcome in the Daniel Chookolingo court matter involving ownership of these shares. The statement was meant to drum up continued support for herself and to ostracise Daniel. She insisted Castagne could not buy the shares with the lawsuit hanging over his head. Her justification for running the company in absentia at the last AGM was that ‘criminals’ wanted to control the company. She did not elaborate on that for fear of another lawsuit as the last time she called a former employee crooked, she had to pay Mrs Khan $200,000.00 for the unfair dismissal but vowed not to pay a cent during the last AGM. She told the usual greedy shareholders that paying it would mean less ‘dividends’ for them. Fortunately a recording turned up of those atrocious comments to expose the duplicity and scheming of Ford and the supporting shareholders, who obviously didn’t see a problem with her usual divisive and criminal statements, once she had someone else to blame.

Meanwhile Chookolingo’s attorney, Raj Joseph was no innocent bystander in this matter. He was promptly reported to the Disciplinary Committee. In a not-so-strange move, Joseph was also promoted to the easy-going State position of Ombudsman in 2021.

A large number of people, especially judges, know the seedy relationship of many of these top selections but are afraid to become casualties of the embedded, infected system.

But, let’s get back to the criminal CHL trio. It is only since the criminal report to the lawful authorities that Dawn Ford, who has been more in Canada became fearful when close supporters said she intends to migrate fully for fear of being ‘stranded’ in T&T if possible actions by the authorities materialise while she is in T&T.

Joyce has come to the realisation that Ford has been lying about everything but she never had the fortitude nor the common sense to question anything as she was literally broke when she was set-up for the directorship position. In fact, we understand Joyce is now scared for her life since her accomplices and or beneficiaries all know she is not a very good liar and is the weakest link in the fragile chain. She knows she is a ‘loose end’ and stands to be ‘eliminated’ as that is what they do with loose ends who are involved in criminality. She never asked herself why bright Marlene wasn’t picked as a director since Marlene was related to her husband Ashton Ford. She only just realised that Marlene was not expendable. Her sister Cindi Da Costa was collateral damage. The latest set of consequences due to the CJ Archie’s foolish and illicit intervention was not anticipated as any attorney Daniel Chookolingo contacted was petrified of challenging the ‘entire’ legal system.

Further, when Joyce was asked why anyone would sell almost half of a company when the buyers could easily write a cheque from the very same company accounts to buy the shares without breaking a sweat, she was dumbfounded. She said she didn’t think of that. In a conversation with Sinanan, she was asked why the board never adhered to the rules of the Companies Act and the BIR. Joyce said matter-of-factly that Ford promised her everything would be OK. She said she was a team player and was loyal to Dawn Ford and it was Dawn who gave her the job as a director.  The idea that she had a duty of care to the shareholders never entered her mind. When she was told that the directors were personally responsible for hefty penalties for misdeeds under their tenure with the high possibility of a stiff jail term, she was shocked. She said Mrs Ford promised the company will pay for everything. But she didn’t explain how she could buy her out of a jail term.

As for Cindi Da Costa, now 60 years old, she is known by most of the family with a mind of a teenager at best, who didn’t have the ability to reason and understand much more than the average teenager. She only operates on a superficial level of fashion and who liked her latest outfit. Most of what she says is contradictory and nonsensical. Her schooling years all went to waste. So Cindi and Joyce were there to ‘support’ their leader Dawn Ford, since they would go to all go the AGM meetings and state how great the company was doing without a single financial, and this went on for 12 years without the BIR intervening, the deepest mystery may be why Finance Minister, Colm Imbert, a very close friend and One Percent ally of Castagne, would care to investigate all this which falls under his portfolio.

As far as the inexperienced and dumb duo of Sinanan and Da Costa, the 2 still  masquerade as bona fide directors and know all their communications are being monitored, especially Sinanan. Neither of them have a clue as to what their duties and obligations are. They have stopped taking phone calls or answering WhatsApp messages for fear of reprisals, apparently fearing those reprisals more than the threat of jail and fines. It’s a very sad state of affairs. The same can be said of the other former CHL employees who are also too scared and one ex-employee Frank

Thompson, recently admitted the ‘employee shareholding group’ were improperly taking directives from Dawn Ford. After that disclosure he suddenly went silent as if he was threatened. He did say however that he was too insignificant to raise any objections. This kind of criminal behaviour is precisely why TTJF called for a commission of enquiry (COE) since March 2022, to investigate the criminal use of Pegasus to subvert the State and apparently the private sector. The PM has every reason to know that this is taking place which makes it surprising about his comments in April that there is no spying, signalling there will be no COE. He did not explain why the Government has spent $48 million dollars on spyware in the past 2 years and it is not functioning. Another mystery?

More on the criminal aspect of the untouchable CHL board in the next episode of this ongoing saga.

People who are revealed here to be involved, come from myriad walks of life and include big people in the judiciary (to dismiss valid cases by foul means), the media managers (to cover-up big stories exposing crimes), the police (to ignore legitimate reports and assist in illegitimate ones), the Board of Inland Revenue (to allow 12 years of non-reporting to go unpunished even after reports are made to them). The bosses at these respective organisations are said to be heavily monitored by Pegasus, an existing spy program which the PM has now rubbished.

With all this in mind, Daniel Chookolingo, has put himself on the line to expose the illegal collaboration and interplay between so many arms of the State, facilitated by a gang led by a man called Sheriff. This activity is exactly what the Anti-Gang Act 2021 was designed to stop. To be clear, it is also illegal gang activity when the State or people employed (or infiltrate) by the State apparatus, illegally spy on people. Is the judiciary now part of breaches of the Anti-Gang Act when the CJ subverts the laws? There seems to be a vicious circle of criminality here.

Chookolingo has stated that he is buoyed by statements made by a handful of people including former Finance Minister, Karen Tesheira, who likely knows the State and its agencies are beyond salvation under the dispensation of the 2 main political parties. This handful of outspoken people are not the people looking for jobs or friends but for a better T&T, in a country they love dearly. The country’s salvation lies in intervention by the 2 supposedly independent institutions, the DPP and the police, or otherwise a miraculous saviour from a new political entity or, in the worst case scenario, a collapse of the country is imminent under the strain of corruption….facilitated by the likes of crooked people using Pegasus. Given the situation, the imminent collapse of the State seems to be the most likely situation as the judiciary itself has failed T&T and this has now been exposed by the antics of the CJ himself. No amount of sugar coating will change that.

 

 Short bio on other players:

 

Justice James Aboud

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justice James Aboud, disgraced the judiciary by implicating them in a One Percent plot?

He originally sat on the Newsday share ownership case filed by Daniel Chookolingo.

When delivering judgement in 2016, without seeing proof of purchase by any other shareholder, dismissed ownership claim by Daniel Chookolingo, the founder even though two of the defendants admitted the claim. None of the other defendants presented proof of share payment but admitted Chookolingo ‘gave’ them shares.  The main lawbreakers, Castagne and Chin Lee, who as directors manipulated the share transfer process of Newsday while he was overseas for a few months, and all overlooked by Judge Aboud and told Chookolingo he must pay millions in legal costs for a preliminary strike out action, as no trial was involved. The main ‘problem’ is that in the process of throwing out Chookolingos claim, Justice Aboud couldn’t restrain himself and made some fundamental errors which revealed the inner and potentially corrupt workings of the judiciary and the One Percent of which he is an integral part. He called Mr Chookolingo an imposter and ridiculed him to the best of his ability. He revealed how he discussed the matter at home with at least one of his siblings which was patently wrong. He then saw to it that Chookolingo could not get the transcript to raise his vulgar behaviour according to documents filed in the Privy Council.

Many of his colleagues on the bench refused to hear what grievous and irreparable harm that their colleague Aboud may have done to the judiciary not just in T&T, it was inescapable that his actions were premeditated. These Court of Appeal colleagues are: Justice Allan Mendonca, Justice Charmaine Pemberton, Justice Judith Jones, Justice Prakash Moosai. The one Court of Appeal Justice that was honest to a fault was Justice Andre des Vignes. But more on that in another instalment of T&T’s crime of the century … exposing the crooked underbelly of the One Percent and the oligarchs right here in T&T… and who made it possible to infiltrate and corrupt the judiciary.

 

 

The Chief Justice, Ivor Archie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chief Justice Ivor Archie, reported to the P.M. for misbehaviour in public office.

There is a powerful statement in law made by an Englishman, Lord Atkin in his judgment in the case of Ambard v Attorney General of T&T (1936). The famous statement was that ‘justice is not a cloistered (sheltered) virtue; it must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respect’. This means that actions and statements made by the judges, especially those in the highest positions, must be open to fair comment.

In other words, judges who are known or required to moralise in their judgments are themselves open to criticism. It is in this light we make certain comments here.

Did the Chief Justice, Ivor Archie, commit an act more grievous than Judge Aboud, by presiding over a Court of Appeal hearing that saw a former Senior Judge and now private ‘practising’ attorney, Mr Raj Joseph appear before him and two other senior judges? Mr Joseph was well known to the CJ and is a long standing subordinate, some say close friend, of the CJ. At the time, Raj Joseph was appearing for Daniel Chookolingo, Claimant, in trying for the 4th time to get the appellate judges to hear the ‘bias’ comments made by High Court Judge James Aboud. In the 3 previous occasions, all prior judges took a ‘hands off’ position in not wanting to hear the grievous charges against Justice Aboud. Raj Joseph told Chookolingo that he agreed that the Aboud statements was the worst he had heard by any judge which was why he was doing the case. What Joseph didn’t say was ineligible to make submissions before any court in T&T until 2027, according to the rules. 

The entire proceeding was a sham from the get-go says Chookolingo. He feels the CJ’s intervention came about because Justice Aboud had messed up royally in the high court and the ‘CJ’s intervention’ was to finally eliminate the matter from the files and legitimise Steve Castagne as the majority “bona fide’ owner of Newsday.

The only other possible explanation for the CJ’s actions was to ‘protect’ the bench from any ‘unwarranted’ intrusion and therefore protect the sloppy Justice Aboud. Besides that, attorney Raj Joseph was actually appointed a judge by CJ Archie himself so it is quite impossible to escape that this was an elaborate set-up for him to lose the case. We don’t think Raj Joseph had what it takes to plan such an outlandish, daring and open ruse. He must have known beforehand his presence in court would have been accepted without question.

It is contended that the CJ’s overt breach of the laws amounted to subverting the law by allowing unauthorised attorney-at-law, Raj Joseph, to make representations and submissions in what the reputed owner of Newsday states is a plot to dismiss his legal action against master criminal, Steve Castagne who used illegal ways to get his shares.

Another key question to be answered is why did the CJ go along with illicit activities himself to help the One Percent, himself committing what is common referred to as ‘misbehaviour in public office?’ The CJ knew very well of the grievous, unjudicial statements by Justice Aboud and yet he chose to go down the same path as if there was some urgency to dismiss the Chookolingo Claim, and in so doing put the entire justice system into disrepute. So, what was his urgency to do that personally? Could he not get one of the many Judges to do his dirty work? Why was it so important to keep this case out of the domain of the Privy Council (JCPC)? Was he hoping that the JCPC would lump the case with all other badly argued cases as was done by Raj Joseph? That is obviously an amateurish set-up.

Archie’s thinking must have been that the JCPC would normally see what is presented before them and are not generally concerned about the flawed nature of the legal system as is normal min the former colonies. So, any bright judge can dismiss a perfectly good case and expect the JCPC to ignore the inherent flaws. The fact that Raj Joseph even reached before T&T’s highest Court counts as a set-up, and that he was supposed to make a poor argument that will not convince the JCPC. As it turned out, the CJ did not fast track the case to the JCPC but nonetheless made a fatal error in hearing former Judge Raj Joseph. Mr Chookolingo’s previous attempts to have the Aboud judgment declared null and void saw a few attorneys also mishandling the appeals and he intends to go public with those facts soon.

 

 

 

Justice of Appeal Prakash Moosai:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

His crime is also for allowing attorney and former Judge Raj Joseph for illicitly appearing before the court. His acts are compounded by appearing in the Chookolingo appeals three times which is not allowed… which states that a Judge ought not to sit on an appeal if he sat on it before. So, it is plain to see that anything passes once the CJ, head of the JLSC says so.

 

 

Justice of Appeal Madam Judith Jones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justice Judith Jones, improper behaviour

Justice of Appeal Madam Judith Jones, committed the same breaches as Justice Moosai. Why did Justices Jones and Moosai follow the CJ by allowing a persona non grata to appear before the court? The answer to that will be most revealing and may very well dictate how the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) choose judges and how the President of the Republic make constitutional and public appointments.

Madam Jones is now Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) since she retired as a judge. A valid question is did President Weekes seek the CJ’s counsel or did the CJ as Chairman of the JLSC offer his advice to his former subordinate, who is now the President? From all appearances in public, they seem to have a very chatty relationship. It all seems like a very cozy situation while litigants and the public rights are being infringed and trampled upon willy-nilly.

 

 

 

Attorney Raj Joseph

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raj Joseph, made illegal representation. Now he is suddenly the ombudsman.

Raj Joseph, attorney for Daniel Chookolingo, deliberately made an illegal appearance to the court of appeal and according to Chookolingo, he must have been in a conspiracy with the court.

In any event, Raj Jospeh was barred from appearing before any T&T court until 2027 as he retired as a Judge in 2017. He was recently appointed as ombudsman in 2021, probably as a retirement gift. Did the President really expect a known law breaker to expend energy to fulfil the State’s mandate as the Ombudsman since he was always an invisible and known to be a person prone to departing office early? He was always known to take advantage of his connections to top people in the judiciary.

This raises the question, how are these public appointments made? After illegally appearing for Daniel Chookolingo, he was appointed Ombudsman for a three (3) year stint starting in 2021.

Donna Prowell, attorney for Steve Castagne, was appointed as Chairman / Judge of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal.

After Justice Aboud’s infamous ruling he was also suddenly promoted to the Court of Appeal.

Former Justice Judith Jones was appointed Chairman of the PSC, now a very political appointment if one looked at the recent shenanigans with Bliss Seepersad.

Meanwhile Justice Andre des Vignes was apparently forced to resign unceremoniously and died soon thereafter.

Meanwhile, a drug overdose was suspected in the death of Michael Hart leading to a ‘stroke’, Hart was the owner of shares in Newsday and a close friend of Chookolingo, who attended a meeting and shared drinks with officials from Newsday the same day he had the stroke. It is known that one Rampaul was behind Hart for a couple of years to buy his shares. Michael was in his fifties and comes from a family that lived well into their eighties and beyond so his passing was suspicious at best. There are a variety of drugs that will bring on ‘stroke like’ symptoms which are normally used to spike drinks.

 

 

Jerry Chin Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerry Chin Lee told the board he’ll always be on Team Castagne, regardless.

He was Castagne’s enabler and his business, Lisa Communications, can also be used to hack the internet and tap phones. But people who have the ability to hack phones must always check their own family before they start hacking other people.

Chin Lee’s father was a known crook when he built government houses in East Trinidad that ‘melted’ when rain fell. He then went to the state solicitor to have the contractor’s bond cancelled so he would not have to repair them. During the Panday Government, Arthur invited PM Panday for a Tobago joyride because he explained that he wanted more State contracts with whoever was in power and was prepared to sleep with the devil as PM Panday later put it. There are also some very unusual State related deals that all parties knew the terms signed to were not achievable.  Later the Chin Lees would hire the accountant from companies that signed off. Are these the people that the State continues to do business with? But Trinidadians are becoming aware of the track record of Castagne and anyone aligned with his ‘team’ must be assumed to be crooked, not merely doing business as straight and honest businessmen. In fact, the question being asked is it all this crookedness with Dawn Ford that must have caused CJ Archie to do the things he did?

 

 

Daniel Chookolingo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Chookolingo, founder of Newsday... grand conspiracy against him.

Chookolingo said he was stalked for months before he left on a trip overseas. He left Steve Castagne and Jerry Chin Lee as directors, who proceeded to manipulate the shares in Newsday. Later Chookolingo cited a case of a similar situation took place with the Clico Group leading to massive rip-offs from many of the board members. When Castagne was asked about his tenure at a Clico subsidiary and the fact he bought 7 apartments at One Woodbrook properties for a song, he said he was no longer on that board. And that is the kind of One Percent criminality that Chookolingo is against and Judges and media and authorities turn a blind eye to. Which is another reason the ‘status quo’ wanted him totally out of the media. In fact, he states the level of collusion in the media circles are astounding since the Trinidad Express now prints Newsday and this is not even notified at the back of the paper as they are lawfully required to do. Both the Express and Newsday are therefore in breach of the law by failing to state this in each issue. But why would a supposedly self-respecting, independent media outfit allow such an arrangement. This speaks of the interlocking arrangements infecting the entire society and which has now been confirmed to have infected the judiciary and even higher. The system T&T operates, calls for a complete separation of powers for the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial. T&T has now officially abandoned this distinction as was seen again quite recently in the PSC shenanigans.

 

 

 

Justice Andre des Vignes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justice of Appeal, forced to resign after he bucked the position of his colleagues in the Court of Appeal.

 

 

In another episode, revelations will be made about Chookolingo’s unethical attorneys; one junior went from relative obscurity to owning a multi-million dollar property. One admitted going into a meeting in the offices of the opposing attorneys to get documents, documents which he already had in his possession. Another wrote the Privy Council letters to raise an appeal without formally filing for the appeal…all in a concerted plan to have the case dismissed.

 

The current list of the Castagne casualties thus far are as follows:

The Chief Justice Ivor Archie

Justice Judith Jones

Justice Prakash Moosai

Justice Andre des Vignes (deceased)

Dawn Ford (housewife)

Joyce Sinanan (former cashier)

Cindi Da Costa (housewife)

Raj Joseph (former Judge, attorney and current Ombudsman)

Michael Hart (Newsday shareholder and close friend of the Chookolingo family)

 

Much of this information came from a source close to Daniel Chookolingo and is part of a book detailing a crooked state of affairs in T&T, including how the One Percent controls the judiciary.