There’s an ongoing battle for ownership of the mega-million dollar newspaper, Newsday. The company launched by Daniel Chookolingo in 1993, is getting no media publicity because two years after its launch, the daily immediately became the fastest selling newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago outstripping the then 30-year old Trinidad Express and the mighty Guardian which was then over 75 years old. Both newspaper and their vast billion dollar media outfits have remained silent since the case was filed in the High Court in 2014.While Newsday’s up-to-date value remains shrouded, there was a valuation done a decade ago which put its worth at over $200 million dollars. Sources close to Mr Chookolingo says this is a bogus value which was given by the Steve Castagne controlled board to buy out minority shareholders to gain full control of his company.
Mr Koylass, SC, changes his tune and says do I as say not as I do.
TTJF saw some an amusing article in a daily newspaper written by one Ernest Koylass, SC, former member of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC).
Now people who know Koylass can tell you where his political allegiances lie so it is not surprising that he was very critical of Kamla Persad’s “light them up” comments.
You see, Koylass obviously falls into the same category as the Aboud brothers who are known trouble-makers as was carried on this site some months ago. One of the main takeaways from the Gregory Aboud article which he wrote was that the One Percent were all good and decent people and they ought not be targeted by misguided souls.
Aboud then blamed the Opposition for foreign exchange leakage, completely oblivious of the facts that 90% of it took place in the past 8 years.
But, the Koylass article is equally sick since he steered readers into his legalistic version of the laws of home invasion and those regarding defense of your life.
But, Koylass is no stranger to giving bogus advice since we at JLSC are aware from Court records that whilst he was an active member of the JLSC, he advised a client who complained of a High Court Judge, Justice James Aboud, brother of Gregory Aboud. Koylass’s advice to his client was that he should drop the complaint.
Any first year law student, as Mr Koylass rightfully said in his August article, would know that as a member of the JLSC he ought not to advise clients on any matter involving the JLSC since it is a direct conflict of interest. But, yet he did.
So, for him it is do as I say but not as I do.
The other main transgression is that people in the public space, like himself and the Abouds, must make it known to the public of their political position since some people may not be aware, that they are reading political rubbish intended to sway people to a certain political position under the guise of intellectual discourse.