Jagdeo libel witness hit by memory lapses

Jason Abdulla, the witness for former president Bharrat Jagdeo in his $10M libel suit against Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon, yesterday testified that he was unable to recall the contents of most of the articles he compiled to support the case, after an accident left him with lapses in his memory.

Under cross-examination by Kissoon’s lawyer Nigel Hughes, Abdulla said that since the last court date he fell down the stairs in his home.  “…And my recollections [are] not so clear,