Magistrate places application to summons HGPTV journalist, manager on hold

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) application to Magistrate Judy Latchman to summons journalist Travis Chase and a station manager to testify in the trial of self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram was yesterday placed on hold.

Dataram, his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine, Kevin Charran and Trevor Gouveia are currently on trial over the alleged possession of 129.230 kilogrammes of cocaine (equivalent to 284 pounds), which police say was found at Dataram’s Diamond Housing Scheme home last year April.

The trial was expected to begin yesterday with Magistrate Latchman’s decision as it relates to summonses to be ordered for HGPTV employee Chase and station manager Nyjel Fraser to appear. The request for the