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POLITICAL Leader of the Progressive Empowerment Party Phillip Edward Alexander has lost his appeal of a judge’s order that he pay Finance Minister Colm Imbert $525,000 in damages for defamation.

In an oral ruling on February 12, Justices of Appeal Mark Mohammed, Ronnie Boodoosingh and Geoffrey Henderson held Justice Jacqueline Wilson’s findings were “unassailable.”

Imbert sued Alexander over a series of posts on Facebook, published between February 29 and March 1, 2020.