CpI Wayne Hayde wins $40,000 libel case
16th April, 1996 Head of the Police Second Division, Corporal Wayne Hayde yesterday won a $40,000 court settlement from the Bomb newspaper. He was represented by attorney Martin George. Hayed had filed a libel suit on October 29, 1993 against the Bomb newspaper and its publisher, Sat Maharaj, and then Bomb writer Dr Morgan Job. The source of contention was an article head lined “Dimples greet bold coup plot” written by Dr Morgan Job and published on February 26, 1993. Yesterday, however, before Justice Annestine Sealey in the Port-of-Spain Second Civil Court, an order was entered into by consent of the two parties that...
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