Manatt enquiry to resume next year
HEARINGS in the Manatt Commission of Enquiry are scheduled to commence on January 17 next year and be completed by February 28.
The schedule was outlined this morning at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.
Attorneys-at-law Hugh Small and Sherry-Ann McGregor will represent Prime Minister Bruce Golding, while attorneys KD Knight and Patrick Anderson, instructed by AJ Nicholson, will represent the People’s National Party.
Patrick Bailey and Kathryn Phipps are to represent the former foreign affairs junior minister Ronald Robinson.
Robinson resigned his position in May in the heat of the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition affair after admitting he met with officers of the United States law firm Manatt Phelps & Phillips.
Robinson cited family concerns as his reason for leaving the administration.
Submissions are expected to be with the Commission secretariat by January 7.
The Government has earmarked approximately $40 million to fund the enquiry which should last some six weeks.