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.
Murder She Wrote … How Suzanne Mills Predicted Her Own Murder
Third Victim to Be Run Over By The Newsday Bus …Piloted by Steve Castagne
Death of Two Other Former Insiders, Michael Hart and Wayne Chookolingo Also Linked to Murders
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TTJF Repeats the Call for a COE to Investigate Illegalities That Now Embroil the Media, Judiciary, BIR, Police and Entire Government
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Involves Justice Aboud, C.J. Archie, Crooked Directors of Newsday and Dawn Ford Who Was Promised Immunity
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Those Who Participate or Condone Murder Will Pay A Heavy Price
Suzanne Mills, dead at 59
The late Choko, Corrupt Dawn Ford must answer to him
Therese Mills …held Castagne at bay for 17 years
Former Newsday editor, Suzanne Mills, was murdered because she was a ‘loose end’ in the Newsday rip-off saga involving a number very senior people in T&T society, both in the State and private sector. Her highly suspicious demise at a relatively young age of 59, is the third death of involving persons who refused instructions from a couple of the big lords at Newsday who manipulated shares in Newsday to show their ownership when in reality they never paid a dime for shares. The other two are Wayne Chookolingo former Newsday director and Michael Hart, an important minor Newsday shareholder. All three were in agreement with one thing in common: that Steve Castagne had illegally manipulated the company shares to seize the highly lucrative company, a matter which is before the courts.
Suzanne Mills was a key witness in the legal battle involving the paper’s founder, Daniel Chookolingo, who took several shareholders and directors to court for fraud for falsifying the issuing or transfer of shares in the company. Steve Castagne and Jerry Chin Lee later went on to buy-out other minority shareholders to gain full ownership of the media company.
CONSPIRACY EXPOSED
In July and August 2019, Suzanne Mills wrote Mr Chookolingo informing him that there was a ‘criminal conspiracy’ to kill her because she did not agree with what was happening in his court matter and disclosed illegal behaviour by Newsday Secretary, attorney Ms Rampaul. Suzanne then asked Mr Chookolingo to please inform the police and the judge that her life was in danger because of inside information she possessed in the case. She further told him that Ms Rampaul, was illegally in touch with her trying to persuade her not to create waves and derail the court action filed by Chookolingo. Her then own attorney, Mrs Donna Prowell had asked Suzanne Mills to agree with false information filed in court documents to which she had a fundamental problem with. Mrs Prowell has since been appointed as a High Court Judge to the Equal Opportunity Tribunal.
Soon after Mills disclosures to Mr Chookolingo in 2019, sources indicate that she was offered several hundred thousand dollars for her silence and complicity. Before her revelations to Chookolingo in August 2019, Miss Mills was the recipient of several million dollars from her mother’s estate, the late Therese Mills and lived the jet set life.
The millions went through her account like the proverbial dose of Epsom salt, and by 2019 she was broke. She claimed that all her money was stolen by people she knew who apparently had access to her accounts.
With the millions gone, she welcomed the offer of a couple hundred thousand dollars for her silence to continue living the high life. The ‘hush’ money she took in 2019 was all but gone by the time of her suspected murder in August 2022, having blown all the ‘hush money.’ Her plan was to extract more hush money from the Newsday contact, the same way she did in 2019 and she decided to approach her Newsday benefactor. Her sister Michele Mills would do well to have her sister’s phone records investigated to see who she was in touch with to solve Suzanne’s ominous foreboding of her own death. In fact, it is incumbent on Michele to protect the memory of her mother and sister and make a public statement. Suzanne’s death could have been foretold by anyone with intimate information about the situation and she is simply another casualty by people who have tangled with the desperate likes of certain people connected with Newsday that will ultimately bring shame and scandal to them all.
DEATH OF WAYNE CHOOKOLINGO
Mills death is the third similar death that saw the rise of minority shareholders in Newsday. The first was the suspicious and untimely death of Wayne Chookolingo, former chairman of Choko Holdings Ltd, owners of Mirror newspapers and the biggest block of the lucrative Newsday shares, whose death was said to be the result of a stroke in October 2010. He was a relatively young 58 years old and in good health. Wayne refused to consider selling any part of the newspaper empire while he was in charge to the annoyance of some shareholders who wanted money right away. On his death, this saw the unlikely appointment of his sister Dawn Ford to the company since she was always thought to have many ‘loose screws’ by most of her siblings.
It never seemed strange to her siblings (the Choko shareholders) that as soon as Wayne passed in October 2010, Dawn Ford came up with an offer 2 weeks later, in November 2010, to sell the company to her pal, Steve Castagne, for $64 million dollars and used this false ploy to get more of her siblings on board telling them she could get $100 million, which in any event was the truer value of the Newsday shares. But in fact, her real mission was to sell every living piece of asset from the Choko Group for$11 million and escape to Canada, beyond the reach of law enforcement. She would later tell the other directors that she had ‘immunity’ to do as she pleased and not to worry.
Even though this offer was a fraud and proved to be so soon thereafter, many Choko shareholders could only see their piece of the $100 million dollar ‘deal’ offered Ford and forgot all about their brother, Wayne, and the strange circumstances of his death regardless of his inability to run the newspaper empire. They refused to see that the murder of a sibling was a red line that ought not to have been crossed. At the time of Wayne’s death, Newsday shares owned by Choko Holdings were worth in the vicinity of $100 million dollars based on a Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) audited valuation done in 2009. Ford then placed fraudulent documents before shareholders to sell all the assets of Choko Holdings for a measly $11 million dollars. Many of the (foolish) shareholders refused to read the legal document she circulated to sell the entire company for the miniscule $11 million. By then, she had secured a Canadian landed immigration visa to leave T&T for good after ripping off the entire company and family, selling the Newsday shares to her buddy, Steve Castagne, in a criminal operation. Two shareholders put a temporary stop to that criminal sale but Ford demonised them and insisted she could sell the Newsday shares for $100 million so she could stay in control of the company and continue with the final rip-off at an opportune time. Many of her objectors passed away by 2021 and she moved to seal the crooked deal with Castagne. In addition, the case brought by Daniel Chookolingo against Newsday and Castagne was kicked out of court by C.J. Archie when he illegally heard Chookolingo’s attorney, Raj Joseph, a former high court judge, a move which is forbidden by the court rules. That matter is now a pending complaint of misbehaviour in public office and is currently before the Prime Minister.
In spite of the sale of the Newsday shares being stopped due to ongoing legal action by Daniel Chookolingo, Ford immediately set about handing over full control of Newsday to Steve Castagne, who then re-assumed control of the Newsday board after fighting with the rest of the board for the previous 17 years. Therese Mills was forced to sell her shares to Castagne, which is the same money Suzanne inherited.
Wayne and Therese Mills were the major stumbling block that prevented Steve Castagne and Jerry Chin Lee from buying up controlling interest in the company. Wayne and Therese Mills together controlled over 50% of Newsday. This alliance saw the removal of a very angry Steve Castagne as then Chairman of the company and he vowed to take revenge for his removal. As chairman he did his best to dictate editorial policy and push his political agenda in the paper, which did not go down well with most of the board especially Therese Mills.
In 2021, crooked Ford eventually succeeded in selling the same Newsday shares which became immensely more valuable over the years since the 2009 valuation, but for a mere $8 million dollars. She bluntly refused to show shareholders a valuation of the Newsday shares and threatened to take court action against anyone who challenged her actions. She managed to fool a few other shareholders that taking $8 million was better than nothing since the company did not pay dividend during the Covid pandemic. And in a new development, it was recently discovered that a number of shareholders who agreed to sell were ‘bailed out’ with illicit cash so they could agree to sell for peanuts. This was another serious crime for those who made the payment since the recipient merely signed stating they were getting an advanced payment on future dividends. One of these shareholders was said to have received over 1 million dollars TT (paid in US) so he could migrate. Another needy shareholder was paid a couple of hundred thousand, a million less. The motto was that each would be paid according to their ‘needs or desperation’. This was how shares valued over $100 million dollars were virtually stolen and are now in the hands of the One Percent overlords AKA Steve Castagne and Jerry Chin Lee. When Ford was asked recently about this illegal payment made to resisting shareholders so they would agree to sell, she threatened to sue. The shareholders who accepted illegal and fraudulent money were subsequently apprised that their acceptance of money did not bind them and that they could still take action against Ford to retrieve the real value of the company, but it was alleged that some of them were either still receiving payment or were afraid of being the next assassinated like Wayne, Hart and now Mills. One sibling was quoted as saying that “Dawn would have to face her late father, Choko (the father of corruption busting also known as the Equaliser) upon her death and of course Saint Peter.” But Ford seems to be proud of her connections to the One Percent and the immunity and protection they offered.
MICHAEL HART
The other person who died a similar death was Newsday shareholder Michael Hart, who supported Daniel Chookolingo in his fight to have 22 percent of the company allotted to him. Only 78% of the company shares were ever allocated leaving the 22% outstanding to Daniel Chookolingo, the founder. Castagne blocked this allocation in order to pursue his agenda for full ownership and the rest is history. High Court Judge James Aboud, himself from the very wealthy One Percent clan that include his Doma brother, Gregory, who incidentally all now feel like Mario Sabga-Aboud, ‘the One Percent Syrian control T&T’, made an incredible ruling that shareholding can be achieved without showing proof of purchase. The C.J.’s illicit intervention would come a couple of years later.
Michael Hart was approached several times by people from Newsday, pleading with him to retract his support for Chookolingo in the court matter but he never did. He was even offered a $1 million dollar incentive, another crime which is called subverting the course of justice. He refused stating that his loyalty to the truth was worth more than money and, as it turned out, life itself. He actually met with a Newsday team for drinks the same he died against the advice from Chookolingo. He died from what is said to be a stroke that same day when he was in his mid-fifties. It is suspected that he was ‘slipped a mickey’ in his drink which is a mixture of Chloral Hydrate to simulate a stroke and was likely administered when he was distracted. The sad thing is that Hart was known to all of the Chookolingo family but this did not seem to matter as they were single-minded about getting part of the Ford fake $100 million dollar payoff even while people of integrity were being killed. Condoning murder or looking the other way while murder was being committed in the name of money was definitely crossing the line. Murder is the one unforgivable crime not tolerated by both God and mankind.
Additionally, several attempts were made against the life of Daniel Chookolingo, since the legal action initiated by him would disappear if he died, but this proved not to be such an easy task since he would never meet with any of them.
But the bigger picture is that ultimately, murderers and crooks are now firmly entrenched in all arms of the media, not just in Newsday, which were traditionally the first responders to expose criminality in the operations of the State. Daniel Chookolingo with the help of Suzanne Mills threatened to expose all of this. (SEE LINK BELOW)
This site now repeats the call to have a Commission of Enquiry to investigate the illegal use of Pegasus and other State resources which are used to control the commanding heights of the economy and ‘deal with’ anyone who gets in their way of total dominance of T&T small but still wealthy treasury.
