More evidence of a relationship between UK property tycoon Peter Virdee and the Timothy Harris-led Team Unity Government.
Two High Court judges in London have accused Virdee and his business partner of making corrupt gifts and to pay bribes to Caribbean politicians.
According to the Hon. Michael Asot website, Hon. Ian Patches Liburd, Minister of Energy in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was among guests in Antigua for the launching of a 3 megawatt solar energy plant in Antigua on February 25, 2016.
Mr. Liburd was recognised in the Salutation of the Hon. Asot Michael, Minister of Energy at the time at the launching as the “Hon. Ian Liburd, Minister of Public Infrastructure, Posts, Urban Development and Transport of St. Kitts and Nevis.” Also recognised by Mr. Michael was Mr. Peter Virdee, Chairman of PV Energy.
The official launch was held on February 25, 2016 and just over two weeks later on 12th March 2016, according to the transcript of the telephone conversation taped by the German police and documented in the May 11th 2018 ruling of Lord Justice Holroyde and Mr. Justice Dingemans, Mr. Peter Virdee is recorded as telling his business partner, Mr, Dieter Trutschler, that the Prime Minister of St. Kitts, Dr. Harris was visiting London, that he had spoken to Dr. Harris at the airport hotel when he was in transit on his way to Dubai, and he Harris told him ‘Look, I am in favour of this, I will send my minister down.’ Financing of the next election campaign was also discussed.
Mr. Virdee also told Mr, Trutschler that he was taking Dr. Harris and his entourage out for dinner and then an after party and that Dr. Harris had asked him for ‘a nice watch’ and also that he had ‘not the time to go and entertain and go and meet him at airports and take him out for lunches and take eight of them out to dinner and buy him a watch and buy him this and buy him shoes.’
In his usual style of lying to the nation, Dr. Harris told a London-based on line Wicnews in a written statement: “the judges in the judgement could therefore legitimately have been thinking of my predecessor.”
During a Forum and a recent press conference on Wednesday, Prime Minister Harris has failed to address the issue honesty amid growing calls for his resignation.