Judge urges relevance as testimony resumes in Jagdeo libel case

Justice Brassington Reynolds yesterday emphasised the need for relevance as testimony resumed in the $10M libel case brought by former President Bharrat Jagdeo against the Kaieteur News and its columnist Freddie Kissoon.

After a more than one-month adjournment, the case resumed and chief counsel for Jagdeo, Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos continued to lead Office of the President media officer Raul Kissoon through his main testimony.

Kissoon, after identifying photocopied extracts of articles published in the Kaieteur News newspaper from June 2010 to December 2011, said that he had made an analysis of the specific instances where