Academic David Hinds has been named as the first witness for Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon in the $10M libel case brought against him by former president Bharrat Jagdeo.
But Hinds was unable to take the stand for the defence yesterday after Justice Brassington Reynolds took a decision to adjourn the proceedings owing to the unavailability of Jagdeo’s lead attorney, Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos, who had a scheduled engagement before the Court of Appeal.
When the matter was first called before Justice Reynolds at the scheduled time, defence attorney Latoya Hobbs-Nurse indicated that her senior Nigel Hughes was dealing with