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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Kublalsingh to cross-examine Sinanan in court

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Sascha Wilson
1977 days ago
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Wayne Kublalsingh and members of the Highway Re-route Movement outside the San Fernando Supreme court yesterday.

Wayne Kublalsingh and members of the Highway Re-route Movement outside the San Fernando Supreme court yesterday.

Sascha Wilson

A judge has re­ject­ed a re­quest by Works Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan to ad­journ next Mon­day’s tri­al in which he is ex­pect­ed to be cross-ex­am­ined by High­way Reroute Move­ment (HRM) leader Wayne Kublals­ingh.

Sinanan made the re­quest through his at­tor­neys be­fore Jus­tice Ricky Rahim in the San Fer­nan­do Supreme Court who had last month set the tri­al date for Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 17.

Sinanan had pe­ti­tioned the court for an ad­journ­ment be­cause he want­ed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­tain the ser­vices of a se­nior coun­sel. Kublals­ingh who is rep­re­sent­ing him­self strong­ly op­posed the re­quest ar­gu­ing that it was an abuse of pow­er.

At the last hear­ing, the judge, who was re­cent­ly as­signed the mat­ter, was sur­prised that Kublals­in­gh’s ap­pli­ca­tion for leave had not been dealt with hav­ing been filed al­most a year ago. He grant­ed him leave and set the mat­ter for tri­al.

Kublals­ingh filed the claim last Feb­ru­ary af­ter he al­leg­ed that Sinanan re­neged on a promise made dur­ing a meet­ing with HRM mem­bers to halt work on the con­ten­tious Debe to Mon De­sir seg­ment of the high­way, and con­sult with the HRM be­fore re­sum­ing any work in that sec­tion.

The mat­ter was ad­journed to Feb­ru­ary 17 when Kublals­in­gh will be al­lowed to cross-ex­am­ine the min­is­ter and an­oth­er de­fence wit­ness Sharon Im­bert. The judge has, how­ev­er, re­strict­ed his cross-ex­am­i­na­tion of the min­is­ter to 30 min­utes and 20 min­utes for the oth­er wit­ness.

Sinanan’s at­tor­ney will al­so have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to cross-ex­am­ine Kublals­in­gh and his wit­ness­es. The par­ties will make their sub­mis­sions to the court the fol­low­ing day.

The min­is­ter is be­gin rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Ke­l­isha Bel­lo.


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