Tag: corruption
AIS owners question political not legal, claims QC
(CNS): The issue of who was behind the local company that secured the lucrative hospital contract was a political issue and not a legal one, Trevor Burke QC said Friday, as he summed up the defence against corruption charges for his client, Canover Watson. He told the jury that the only reason that questions were asked about […]
Crown: Watson defence ‘fanciful’
(CNS): The deputy director of public prosecutions took just over four hours yesterday to summarise the crown’s case against Canover Watson for corruption in relation to a hospital contract. Patrick Moran described explanations given by the former HSA board chair for some of the incriminating evidence as “so fanciful it is almost insulting”, as he argued […]
Evidence ends in Watson case
(CNS): After almost two months in the courtroom listening to the CarePay corruption case, the jury has now heard all the live evidence that will be presented by both the crown and the defence. Canover Watson called just one witness Tuesday on his own behalf. This was to support his claim that he had received […]
Missing jury disturbs Misick’s legal team
(CNS): Lawyers defending the former premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Michael Misick, raised concerns about the missing jury as the case against their client opened last week. The corruption trial is taking place in front of a single judge because the defendants have been denied the right to a jury. Andrew Mitchell QC began his […]
Watson battles to explain emails and documents
(CNS): The former chair of the Health Services Authority continued to try and explain more apparently incriminating emails on Friday during another tough day of cross-examination about his alleged involvement with AIS Cayman Ltd. Explaining documents that appeared to show how he and his close friend, Jeffrey Webb, were going to benefit from the lucrative hospital […]
Watson denies helping Webb launder cash
(CNS): Canover Watson accepted under cross-examination in the CarePay corruption trial that he helped Jeffrey Webb, his friend and business partner, to create false documents to send to a US bank but denied helping him to launder money. Going through more documents recovered from Watson’s computers and flash drives, prosecutor Patrick Moran pressed him repeatedly to reveal […]
Corruption case opens against TCI’s former leader
(CNS): The trial of Michael Misick, the former premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and eight other defendants began Monday, as the crown opened the case against them for corruption charges that date back 13 years. The prosecution claims that Misick and others were immersed in corrupt land dealings with developers that netted millions […]
Jury asks for missing minister
(CNS): The absence of the former health minister, Mark Scotland, was queried Wednesday by members of the jury hearing the corruption case against the former Health Service Authority Board chair Canover Watson. While Scotland has been referred to throughout the trial, extensively so since Watson took to the witness stand, the former UDP minister was […]
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 […]
