MILLIONS FOR HILAIRE

The State has set­tled a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar con­sti­tu­tion­al claim brought by for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire, but the Gov­ern­ment has not dis­closed how much the agree­ment will cost tax­pay­ers.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day con­firmed the set­tle­ment deal, which was reached short­ly be­fore the mat­ter was sched­uled to go to tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Lisa Ram­sumair-Hinds in the Port-of-Spain High Court.

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In a What­sApp re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia, Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­vealed that at­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Hi­laire and the State en­tered in­to ne­go­ti­a­tions that led to a res­o­lu­tion of the mat­ter.