PROMINENT PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) activist, Danhai Williams, has lost a suit filed against him by the proprietors of Moby Dick Restaurant in downtown Kingston.
A judgement was handed down on March 2, in the Supreme Court for the claimant Morlyn Mangaroo-McBean to recover $1.3 million plus interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from April 1, 2002 to March 2, 2005.
McBean took legal action after Williams failed to pay her for supplying food and refreshments at the opening of the Operation PRIDE Housing Scheme in Riverton Mews, St. Andrew, in November 2001. The claimant also said she was asked to provide special cutlery and table cloth in the colours of the PNP.
In April 2001, McBean said she supplied 2,000 buns, 2,016 tins of cheese and 60 pounds of fish to Williams in preparation for separate functions organised for government ministers and other high-ranking party officials.
NO OTHER OPTION
Contacted yesterday, McBean said she was prompted to take legal action because she had no other option.
"I have spoken to a number of influential persons in the party, including government ministers, for Danhai (Williams) to pay me, but nothing has happened," said McBean.
"It took me two years to pay off the bakery and other persons who had supplied me with the goods. I believe it is unfair for Mr. Williams and his associates to partake of the goods and then allow me to use my hard earned cash and pay for them. I left everything in the hands of Allah (God)," said Mrs. McBean.
Attorney-at-law Anthony Pearson, who represented the claimant, told The Gleaner yesterday that he will be adopting all the necessary legal means to collect on the judgement.
