Tag: Canover Watson
Watson: mistakes and debts explain evidence
(CNS): Canover Watson pointed to more mistakes by his PA and money owed to him by his business partner as the reasons for the apparent incriminating evidence against him in relation to the AIS Cayman Ltd hospital payment contract. Watson gave innocent explanations to the jury for a catalogue of what prosecutors presented as evidence pointing […]
Hospital tender was only for BIC, claims Watson
(CNS): A request for proposals (RFP) for the hospital payment and verification system was only put out to public tender because the minister said it was politically prudent, as Brac Informatics Centre (BIC) had expressed an interest in the project, Canover Watson claimed in court Thursday. The former HSA chair said that the health minister […]
Webb was AIS partner from get-go
(CNS): The former chair of the Health Services Authority Board told a jury that he knew from the very beginning that his close friend and business partner, Jeffrey Webb, was involved with the firm that went on to win the hospital payment contract. Speaking from the witness stand in his own defence against the list of […]
Watson says Webb was AIS owner
(CNS): Former chair of the Health Services Authority, Canover Watson, has pointed to his close friend and business partner, Jeffrey Webb, as the real beneficial owner of AIS Cayman Ltd, which secured the lucrative contract for the hospital payment and verification system, but has denied having any interest himself in the business. Trevor Burke QC made […]
Rodrigues walks free after acquittal
(CNS): The judge presiding over the CarePay corruption trial directed the jury Tuesday to find Miriam Rodrigues not guilty of the one charge against her in relation to the case, in which she was standing trial alongside Canover Watson. Rodrigues, who was charged with transferring criminal property, or money laundering, was acquitted today following a submission […]
Crown wraps up CarePay case with more evidence
(CNS): Jurors were given more documents on Monday as the crown wrapped up the hospital CarePay corruption case against Canover Watson and Miriam Rodrigues. While the six women and one man have heard from many live witnesses, a very significant portion of the crown’s case is based on electronic data and documents, particularly email communications, banking transactions […]
Webb asked PA to create company in hospital scandal case
(CNS): Miriam Rodrigues told police that she did the paperwork and local registration for AIS (Cayman) Ltd at the direction of Jeffrey Webb, not Canover Watson, while she was working as Watson’s PA because he had asked her to help Webb when he needed it. In her first interview with police regarding the CarePay case, in […]
Watson blamed PA for mistaken links to AIS
(CNS): In his interview with police following his arrest in the CarePay scandal, Canover Watson said it was mistakes on the part of his personal assistant, Miriam Rodrigues, that his name, telephone numbers and other things appeared to link him to AIS Cayman Ltd, but he was not a beneficial owner. Jurors heard Friday that […]
Bank boss says Webb borrowed $240k for sports firm
(CNS): Former CIFA president, Jeffrey Webb, borrowed cash from Fidelity Bank on behalf of a sports firm he owned with Jack Warner, his predecessor at CONCACAF, with the help of Canover Watson, the court heard this week. Brett Hill, Fidelity’s chief executive, gave evidence in Watson’s trial that officials at the bank approved a loan in 2011 […]
Flash drive evidence stalls corruption trial
(CNS): After just one day of evidence following the Christmas break, the trial of Canover Watson, the former chair of the Health Services Authority Board, and his PA, Miriam Rodrigues, was adjourned again Tuesday morning as a result of the emergence of what could be new evidence. With several crown witnesses still to be heard […]
Watson asked IT boss to delete emails
(CNS): As the trial of Canover Watson over corruption charges in relation to a hospital contract resumed Monday after the Christmas adjournment, the court heard that some time before he was arrested Watson asked the IT manager at his office to delete what turned out to be incriminating email files from the company server. At […]
