Kissoon’s lawyers seeking to prove Jagdeo was ‘ideological racist’

Bharrat Jagdeo

Lawyers for the defence in the $10M libel suit brought against columnist Freddie Kissoon and the Kaieteur News newspaper today signalled that they would field more than a dozen witnesses to prove that former President Bharrat Jagdeo was an “ideological racist.”

Kissoon’s lawyer Nigel Hughes made this disclosure moments after Jagdeo’s legal team closed its case in the High Court before Justice Brassington Reynolds.

Hughes told reporters that he plans