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Q:
Which MP?
A:
Lisa Hanna, that is what she tell me. Lisa Hanna, she,
Andrea Smith and one name P, that a him drive the MP
must get out of the $110,000. So mi look at it and mi say my
70 have to come out of there because I do to work too. I
went and collect that money and I pay the $80,000 to
Reginald, because everybody do work that time, 50 to
Roderick Riley, that is my brother, $40,000 to Oswald
[Jarrett]
and the other $70,000 paid out to my workers, it
leave $40,000.When I collect I was down by the car park
in Claremont she keep on calling me.
Q:
She who?
A:
Andrea Smith and said...”
The aforementioned scenario outlined by Mr. Brown was corroborated, in parts, by Mr. Roderick Riley, who
was stated to have been “sub-contracted” who performed a portion of the works and to whom the sum of
$50,000.00 was stated to have been paid. Mr. Roderick Riley advised the OCG of,
inter alia
, the following:
“CHAIRMAN:
Now, Mr Bliden
[sic]
Brown, your brother, has
said that he did work, it was a NWA, what you
would call old time Public Works contract and
after him change the cheque for $28000, he paid
you $50000.00 for the bushing and drain
cleaning work. You remember any such
occasion?
A:
Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN: And when that was done you did work from
where to where?
A:
That is for the fifty thousand?