CARLENE Smith Williams, who co-hosted the cancelled TV talk show Our Voices, is today expected to issue a public apology to hotelier John Issa as part of a libel suit settlement which include a payment of $500,000 for comments made on the show four years ago.

The libellous statements, described in court papers as "false and malicious" were made during a conversation on January 19, 2004 between Smith Williams and co-host Lisa Hanna, the former beauty queen turned politician.

Following the comments, Issa, who heads the Super Clubs international hotel chain sued Smith Williams, Hanna, TPP Limited, which produced Our Voices, and show producer Angella Thame.

The agreement reached when Smith Williams and attorneys for Issa appeared in the Supreme Court last week, requires that the former Dancehall Queen's apology be aired on television and the $500,000 paid in instalments of $250,000.

Hanna, the member of parliament of South East St Ann, had earlier settled with Issa with a public apology and a payment of $250,000.

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