The government yesterday condemned the move to jail Finance Minister Winston Jordan for failing to make a court-ordered payment of US$2 million to Dipcon Construction and appealed to the courts to “protect the Executive” from what it dubbed “vexatious and partisan action.”
“Cabinet condemns the unprecedented and scurrilous attack on a serving Minister of Government by seeking to imprison him in his private capacity,” Cabinet said in a statement released by the Ministry of the Presidency.
The statement said Cabinet endorsed the action taken by President David Granger to grant respite to exempt Jordan from punishment in his private capacity for judgments incurred prior to his appointment as minister.
