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Barbados Prime Minister’s Land Fraud Trial - Canadian Court To Rule On Threats To Lawyer, Witnesses
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The Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen S. Arthur, Chief Justice Sir David Simmons, Barbados Diplomat Peter Simmons and a host of other prominent people and companies in Barbados are facing land fraud, corruption and conspiracy charges in a Canadian Court.
This has to do with land in Barbados called Kingsland Estates that is supposedly valued at over one billion US dollars. So far the Barbados media has been hiding the case from the public, but cracks in the news blackout are starting to show.
The Broad Street Journal has just published an excellent article giving an overview of the lawsuit brought on by a company Nelson Barbados Group Ltd. against Prime Minister Arthur and the other defendants - but in keeping with the oppression felt by the Barbados media, the article by Patrick Hoyos does not name Prime Minister Arthur or the other defendants!
Barbados journalists have every right to be worried about threats against them from the government, and we think that Peter Hoyos has stuck his neck out even mentioning the Canadian court case.
It is absurd that we are days away from a national election and the Barbados public does not know that their Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Attorney General and other prominent people and companies on this island are facing serious land fraud and conspiracy charges in a Canadian civil court.
Barbados Diplomat Delivers Threats Of Violence Against Lawyer, Witnesses
Now we are seeing a new development in the case where it is alleged that serious threats of violence have been made by some of the defendants against a Canadian lawyer and some witnesses. The details are still skimpy in the media, but from what we’ve been able to gather, Barbados diplomat Peter Simmons, who is the brother of fellow defendant Chief Justice David Simmons, was tape recorded delivering threats of violence.
It is tough to say “I didn’t do it” when a tape recording exists!
Memo To Prime Minister Owen Arthur & Chief Justice David Simmons…
When the trial is being held in a Canadian court, you can’t get away with the normal thug-like behaviour that you use in Barbados. Threatening witnesses, lawyers and tampering with the court case works fine in Bridgetown, but you get into serious trouble when you try that in a country where the courts are honest and not subject to your control.
Read all about it at…
The Broad Street Journal: Nelson Barbados’ case against Kingsland Estates and over 50 other persons and companies enters an important stage
Nelson Barbados’ case against Kingsland Estates and over 50 other persons and companies enters an important stage
By Pat Hoyos/The Broad Street Journal Published: January 6, 2008
The case filed in the Canadian law courts by the Canadian company Nelson Barbados Group Ltd. against Kingsland Estates Ltd. and well over 50 other private individuals, corporate entities, and even the country of Barbados itself enters an important stage next week.
Kingsland Estates Ltd. owns about 1,000 acres of increasingly valuable real estate in Barbados and has been the subject of ongoing litigation, mainly in cases brought by one of its shareholders, Marjorie Knox. This reporter understands that Mrs. Knox sold a portion of her one-seventh holding in the company to the owner of Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary, Peter Allard, who then sold part or all of it to a company which has incorporated a subsidiary in Barbados called the Nelson Barbados Group.
At stake is the valuation of shares in the company which some say could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and the contention of Nelson Barbados Group, among other things, is that the true value of Mrs. Knox’ stake in the company needs to be established.
The Nelson group also wants the case to be heard in Canada, under the terms of a treaty which Barbados signed long ago with Canada allowing Canadian investors that option in the case of civil disputes. But many of the defendants named in the suit have objected, and next Monday, a judge in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice is expected to hear a motion by Nelson Barbados Group regarding where the cross-examinations into those affadavits filed against using Canada as a jurisdiction for the case should actually take place.
In the alternative, Nelson Barbados is asking the court to require the defendants to pay half a million Canadian dollars toward its lawyers’ security costs along with all of its legal costs if cross-examinations are to be held in Barbados.
Nelson Barbados says the grounds for its motion are that one of the defendants has “conveyed a threat on behalf of himself and other defendants against the solicitor for the plaintiff and a witness”. As a result, says the motion, “it would be dangerous for the solicitor and his support team as well as a court reporter to go to Barbados to cross-examine affiants who are easily able to travel to Ontario.”
Now, according to a transcript of a conversation containing the alleged threat, the principal lawyer for Nelson Barbados, Bill McKenzie, was warned to “watch his back” among other things when he comes to Barbados. The alleged defendant goes on to add that “all of the animosity is directed at Bill McKenzie and Peter Allard and John Knox.”
The latter, the son of Marjorie Knox, has filed an affadavit in the motion.
The motion filed by Nelson Barbados in the Ontario Superior Court also quotes Allan Bell, the president of consulting firm Globe Risk International Inc. who said he had reviewed the transcripts of the conversation containing the alleged threats and was of the opinion that “Mr. McKenzie, his legal team and his family are at risk that the threats will be carried out and that the people behind the threats have the means, the motivation and the resources to cause extensive harm or mischief to Mr. McKenzie and those close to him.”
Barbados Prime Minister’s Land Fraud Trial - Canadian Court To Rule On Threats To Lawyer, Witnesses
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The Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen S. Arthur, Chief Justice Sir David Simmons, Barbados Diplomat Peter Simmons and a host of other prominent people and companies in Barbados are facing land fraud, corruption and conspiracy charges in a Canadian Court.
This has to do with land in Barbados called Kingsland Estates that is supposedly valued at over one billion US dollars. So far the Barbados media has been hiding the case from the public, but cracks in the news blackout are starting to show.
The Broad Street Journal has just published an excellent article giving an overview of the lawsuit brought on by a company Nelson Barbados Group Ltd. against Prime Minister Arthur and the other defendants - but in keeping with the oppression felt by the Barbados media, the article by Patrick Hoyos does not name Prime Minister Arthur or the other defendants!
Barbados journalists have every right to be worried about threats against them from the government, and we think that Peter Hoyos has stuck his neck out even mentioning the Canadian court case.
It is absurd that we are days away from a national election and the Barbados public does not know that their Prime Minister, Chief Justice, Attorney General and other prominent people and companies on this island are facing serious land fraud and conspiracy charges in a Canadian civil court.
Barbados Diplomat Delivers Threats Of Violence Against Lawyer, Witnesses
Now we are seeing a new development in the case where it is alleged that serious threats of violence have been made by some of the defendants against a Canadian lawyer and some witnesses. The details are still skimpy in the media, but from what we’ve been able to gather, Barbados diplomat Peter Simmons, who is the brother of fellow defendant Chief Justice David Simmons, was tape recorded delivering threats of violence.
It is tough to say “I didn’t do it” when a tape recording exists!
Memo To Prime Minister Owen Arthur & Chief Justice David Simmons…
When the trial is being held in a Canadian court, you can’t get away with the normal thug-like behaviour that you use in Barbados. Threatening witnesses, lawyers and tampering with the court case works fine in Bridgetown, but you get into serious trouble when you try that in a country where the courts are honest and not subject to your control.
Read all about it at…
The Broad Street Journal: Nelson Barbados’ case against Kingsland Estates and over 50 other persons and companies enters an important stage
Nelson Barbados’ case against Kingsland Estates and over 50 other persons and companies enters an important stage
By Pat Hoyos/The Broad Street Journal Published: January 6, 2008
The case filed in the Canadian law courts by the Canadian company Nelson Barbados Group Ltd. against Kingsland Estates Ltd. and well over 50 other private individuals, corporate entities, and even the country of Barbados itself enters an important stage next week.
Kingsland Estates Ltd. owns about 1,000 acres of increasingly valuable real estate in Barbados and has been the subject of ongoing litigation, mainly in cases brought by one of its shareholders, Marjorie Knox. This reporter understands that Mrs. Knox sold a portion of her one-seventh holding in the company to the owner of Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary, Peter Allard, who then sold part or all of it to a company which has incorporated a subsidiary in Barbados called the Nelson Barbados Group.
At stake is the valuation of shares in the company which some say could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and the contention of Nelson Barbados Group, among other things, is that the true value of Mrs. Knox’ stake in the company needs to be established.
The Nelson group also wants the case to be heard in Canada, under the terms of a treaty which Barbados signed long ago with Canada allowing Canadian investors that option in the case of civil disputes. But many of the defendants named in the suit have objected, and next Monday, a judge in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice is expected to hear a motion by Nelson Barbados Group regarding where the cross-examinations into those affadavits filed against using Canada as a jurisdiction for the case should actually take place.
In the alternative, Nelson Barbados is asking the court to require the defendants to pay half a million Canadian dollars toward its lawyers’ security costs along with all of its legal costs if cross-examinations are to be held in Barbados.
Nelson Barbados says the grounds for its motion are that one of the defendants has “conveyed a threat on behalf of himself and other defendants against the solicitor for the plaintiff and a witness”. As a result, says the motion, “it would be dangerous for the solicitor and his support team as well as a court reporter to go to Barbados to cross-examine affiants who are easily able to travel to Ontario.”
Now, according to a transcript of a conversation containing the alleged threat, the principal lawyer for Nelson Barbados, Bill McKenzie, was warned to “watch his back” among other things when he comes to Barbados. The alleged defendant goes on to add that “all of the animosity is directed at Bill McKenzie and Peter Allard and John Knox.”
The latter, the son of Marjorie Knox, has filed an affadavit in the motion.
The motion filed by Nelson Barbados in the Ontario Superior Court also quotes Allan Bell, the president of consulting firm Globe Risk International Inc. who said he had reviewed the transcripts of the conversation containing the alleged threats and was of the opinion that “Mr. McKenzie, his legal team and his family are at risk that the threats will be carried out and that the people behind the threats have the means, the motivation and the resources to cause extensive harm or mischief to Mr. McKenzie and those close to him.”