Testimony of invoices worth hundreds of thousands of dollars made out to Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) with the name of a former driver of Ruel Reid was shared in court as the fraud trial of the former education minister, ex-CMU President Fritz Pinnock, and their three co-accused continued on Tuesday.

Two more witnesses, including a representative of the Office of the Registrar General (formerly Registrar General’s Department) and a chief special agent of the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) were called by the prosecution, before the defence lodged an objection to the testimony of the MOCA agent.

The chief special agent told the court she was the officer who took a statement from the now-deceased Devon McQueen, who had been identified before the court as Reid’s former driver.

The prosecution said it is attempting to get McQueen’s statements tendered into evidence.

The chief special agent told the court that on March 23, 2019, while she held the rank of detective sergeant at MOCA, she was called in to assist the Financial Investigations Division (FID) on a matter; and that on April 24 that year she and Inspector Brenton Williams met McQueen at a home in Vineyard Town.

She briefly interviewed him before inviting him to come to the FID office in Kingston, and while at the office, showed McQueen four invoices.

She shared, from memory, the contents of those invoices which were dated January, February, March, and April 2018.

The agent said all four were addressed to Caribbean Maritime University, bore the name Devon McQueen and the notation “For the provision of student needs”. The February and March invoices had a sum of $30,000 each, while the other two had sums of $330,000 each.

Following this, the agent said McQueen was again interviewed and gave a statement to the chief special agent, which he read and signed. The content of the statement was not shared with the court.

The defence objected to the testimony of the chief special agent, with Anthony Armstrong, who represents Reid, citing the content of the invoices.

The prosecution maintained that the agent’s testimony was required for the context of her interaction with McQueen, whose statements they want to be submitted into evidence.

Presiding Judge Sanchia Burrell overruled the objection, and the witness was allowed to continue.

The agent also told the court that on September 24, 2025 she identified McQueen from a photocopy of a funeral programme which, she said, bore his image. She again identified him from the same photo in court.

“I remember Mr McQueen because he had a very large nose… a memorable face, I should say,” she said.

Attorney Hugh Wildman, who represents Pinnock, objected to the witness, asking that she not be allowed to continue her testimony.

Justice Burrell noted his objection but ruled that the witness would continue, and told Wildman that there would be an appropriate time to make submissions regarding his objection.

Wildman maintained that the witness was giving evidence of a conversation between herself and McQueen and described it as hearsay. However, Burrell informed him that no such evidence regarding any conversation had been shared.

Wildman went on to lodge his objection, adding that information collected by Williams under the FID Act would have informed the MOCA agent’s investigation and was thus inadmissible.

He further said that a MOCA agent cannot avail herself of information collected under the FID Act, describing the evidence as tainted.

The attorney also objected to the photo of McQueen being admitted into evidence, indicating that the document was collected in breach of the FID Act and is hearsay as it was collected outside of the presence of the accused and is therefore irrelevant.

Prior to the MOCA agent, the registrar general representative, who works within the Authentication, Verification and Identity Department, had explained how death records specifically are created, and gave testimony of retrieving the original copy of a death certificate for McQueen, and having that copy certified before it was passed on to the police.

That copy, after identification by the registrar general’s representative, was submitted into evidence on Tuesday.

The allegations in the trial are that Reid and his wife Sharen, their daughter Sharelle, Councillor Kim Brown Lawrence, and Pinnock participated in a scheme that siphoned more than $25 million in government funding from the Ministry of Education and CMU between 2016 and 2019.

Court resumes on Wednesday, when Wildman is expected to bring cases to support his objection, with a response from the prosecution before the judge rules on whether the agent will be allowed to continue her testimony.