GINA contractee tenders articles written about Jagdeo

Jason Abdulla, a contracted Government Information Agency (GINA) employee stationed at the Office of the President (OP), testified yesterday that over the last few weeks he had been tasked with compiling articles written by columnist Freddie Kissoon in the Kaieteur News about former president Bharrat Jagdeo and the government.

Abdulla is the third witness in the $10 million libel suit brought by Jagdeo against Kissoon and the Kaieteur News. His appearance comes before the testimony of the second witness Raul Kissoon, a media monitor, has been completed. Kissoon last testified on April 16.

Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon was the