Mingo admits sending $1.5M cheque for Pradoville lot

Mortimer Mingo

After the Ministry of Housing dramatically produced a cheque he had tendered to it, Region 10 chairman Mortimer Mingo acknowledged for the first time yesterday that he had sent the instrument for $1,500,500 to recognise the offer of a house lot at the controversial Pradoville 2 Scheme but had it dishonoured after discovering that other chairmen had not been offered lots.

In a burgeoning furore emanating from court testimony in the libel case brought by President Bharrat Jagdeo against Kaieteur News and columnist Freddie Kissoon, Mingo was forced to expand