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Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) po­lit­i­cal leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has lost his ap­peal over be­ing or­dered to pay over $525,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert for defama­tion.

De­liv­er­ing an oral judg­ment af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain this morn­ing, Ap­pel­late Judges Mark Mo­hammed, Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh, and Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son re­ject­ed Alexan­der’s ap­peal.

The ap­peal pan­el ruled that High Court Judge Jacque­line Wil­son could not be crit­i­cised for up­hold­ing Im­bert’s case against Alexan­der in Oc­to­ber 2023.