No connection between JLP councillor and Brown’s Town Community College, says witness

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Principal of Brown’s Town Community College, Claudeth Haughton testified Wednesday that the school had never hired or had any formal relationship with Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor Kim Brown Lawrence.

Haughton was called by the prosecution at the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court to give evidence in the $25 million fraud case of Brown-Lawrence, former Education Minister Ruel Reid, former head of the Caribbean Maritime University Fritz Pinnock and Reid’s wife and daughter, Sharen and Sharelle Reid.

Haughton shared information on the operations of the school, with the prosecution focusing specifically on whether lunches were provided for certain students engaged in the nine-month-long Customer Engagement Operation Training programme.