Luncheon offered Pradoville land to Mingo as ‘close friend’

Mortimer Mingo

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday said he had called Mortimer Mingo about the allocation of land at the ‘Pradoville 2’ housing scheme not on authority, but because they were good friends.
Asked during his post-Cabinet press briefing on what authority the main opposition PNCR’s top Region 10 official  was allocated land at the Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara Housing Scheme, Luncheon said that in the case of Mingo “it really wasn’t an authority that was needed to advise a close friend and likely neighbour about opportunities that had become known to me”.

Mingo was identified as one of