Acting PS sues for libel
March 2, 1994 DOROTHY LEE SOOKDEO, acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Planning and Mobilisation, has filed a court action claiming damages for libel, against a Couva man. In a separate matter, Roger Yearwood, a civil engineer, has sued Bob Singh and Trinidad Engineering and Research Ltd, over the balance of some money owing on the Warden’s Road, Squatters Regulisation Project, which was completed in December 1992. Sookdeo who is also an attorney at law, claimed that Vishnudath Rooplal, of Main Road, Couva, had caused his attorney, Karen Boodhan, to write her (Sookdeo) a letter involving money indebtedness, to the amount...
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