Jensen La Vende

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee was grant­ed $1 mil­lion bail yes­ter­day, as the State is set to lay an in­dict­ment against him and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi.

How­ev­er, the two did not ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mas­ter Lisa Singh-Phillip dur­ing the hear­ing of their cas­es, af­ter both took ill on Tues­day and re­mained hos­pi­talised yes­ter­day at the Port-of-Spain and San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al hos­pi­tals re­spec­tive­ly. Mas­ter Lisa Singh-Phillip heard the mat­ter in their ab­sence and grant­ed the bail.