Jagdeo’s DPP snubs, speeches on ‘past’ face scrutiny in libel suit

Dr Roger Luncheon

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday faced scrutiny over President Bharrat Jagdeo’s apparent snub of two Afro-Guyanese for appointment as Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and his unwillingness to confirm another Afro-Guyanese as a Judge.

Luncheon, who continued to testify under cross-examination in the $10M libel case filed by Jagdeo against Kaieteur News and columnist Freddie Kissoon, admitted to defence lawyer Nigel Hughes that the appointments of two Indo-Guyanese DPPs were made,