Justice Brassington Reynolds is expected to rule next month on the admissibility of a newspaper report in the challenge by conveyancing clerk Mohendra Arjune to the city’s contract with Smart City Solutions (SCS) for the parking meter project.
The April 13, 2017 report, headlined ‘Councillors to receive original parking meter contract,’ was published in Stabroek News.
An affidavit, submitted by Arjune’s attorney, Kamal Ramkarran, on June 16, argues that the fact that the Mayor is reported in the report as saying that city councillors did not have the opportunity of seeing a contract which they purportedly entered before that contract was entered into is a significant fact that goes to the root of the proceedings.
It further contends that since the article has never been withdrawn by the Stabroek News on a complaint by the Mayor that it was
