ormer executive secretary of the Board of Education and Speaker of Parliament, and current UPP chairman D. Gisele Isaac
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& Algernon ‘Serpent’ Watts
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Friday June 26, 2015 – Chairman of the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) and former Speaker of Parliament D. Gisele Isaac is facing fraud charges connected with alleged wrongdoing while she served as executive secretary of the Board of Education (BoE).
Radio talk show host Algernon ‘Serpent’ Watts, who served as a debt collection officer for the Board, is also facing charges.
Both appeared in the St. John Magistrates’ Court before Magistrate Joanne Walsh yesterday and were released on bail.
Isaac and Watts are jointly accused of conspiring to defraud the Board of Education of EC$13,983.97 (US$5,179.25) between March 2013 and March 2014.
Isaac also faces additional charges of fraudulent conversion of the same money and fraudulent conversion of another EC$9,000 (US$3,333) , as well as corruption.
Watts is singly accused of failing to pay Education Levy to the Commissioner of Inland Revenue between March 2013 and February 2014, being a person self employed as a debt collection officer at the BoE.
Isaac has been released on EC$35,000 (US$12,963) bail, with a cash component of EC$15,000 (US$5,555) while Watts’ bail was set at EC$15,000 (US$5,555) with a EC$5,000 (US$1,851) cash component. They will return to court on October 25.
As a condition of their bail release, the two had to surrender their travel documents and ordered to report to the police station every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.