A prosecution witness told the High Court that accused Saliem Harrigan said a contract to kill Nigel Christian was given by Raymond Yhap.
The witness testified that Harrigan allegedly said the arrangement was facilitated through an inmate at His Majesty’s Prison.
The court also heard the witness claim that police were aware of an alleged plan to kill Christian before he was shot on July 10, 2020. When questioned, however, the witness said he did not know whether Christian had been placed in protective custody.
Wayne Thomas, Saliem Harrigan and Lasean Bully are jointly charged with murder. The trial continues before Justice Rajiv Persad.
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The Police were aware of an alleged plan to kill Christian.What did they do to prevent it from happening? What plans if any,were in place to protect Christian? The Police leaders need to respond to that assertion by that witness.
The triad connections! Guns! Drugs! Girls!
Now the case really start.
Hope his ass is charged and tried too.
Wouldn’t be his first time before the court:
https://antiguanewsroom.com/criminal-case-against-raymond-yhap-dismissed-in-magistrates-court/
Is it a fact, that this same individual was found not guilt by magistrate for allegedly possessing too much ammunition at a business establishment?
Is it a fact, that said magistrate was sent into early retirement for misconduct?
Is it a fact, that law enforcement in Antigua & Barbuda is so corrupt, that it would take a ton of epsom salt to purge the agency?
Is it a fact, that nothing will become of these allegations against the police force?
Wait!! A Ray John top Spar name dem call???
No Sah!!! Wah go so?
I new some business man name would call hmmm info start to come out
Well Well Lard only you kno…….he is not a Jamaican or a Guyanese but a Chinese if yu kno you kno
wow. Chinese businessman. we all know him. Antigua newsroom why without his photo?
Soooooo Yapl ALLEGEDLY contracted someone in 1735 who then sub-contracted dem morons?
Murder for hire? This whole thing just keep getting worse. just dropped a bombshell
All I want every last one if them involved in this must go down. Mr. Christian life can’t go for nutten. No frigging way. Even if people in law enforcement had information and did not act on it they too must burn
All I want every last one of them involved in this must go down. Mr. Christian life can’t go for nutten. No frigging way. Even if people in law enforcement had information and did not act on it they too must burn
As Shabba Ranks said trailer load ah girls dung ah wharf fe come off. Girls! Girls! Everywhere.
Was Nigel Christian about to expose the entire ring, of possibly guns, ammo and drug smuggling at the port similar to what transpired with the vehicles?
If Nigel Christian was aware and was about to be the whistle blower, can it be assumed that other top brass at the port and the ministry of finance were also aware, as well?
This investigation should go back at least twenty years to start with. Follow the leads such as who forged the Prime Mjnister’s signature?
Follow the leads where a former auctioneer was caught wheeling and dealing.
Now that this can of worms has been opened there is enough worms to go fishing and catch many hook line and sinker.
If these allegations against this Yhap stand up to the truth test, maybe he’ll give up his handlers but I doubt it because it looks like THE TRIADS are already deeply rooted in the underworld culture of Antigua & Barbuda and their members know the consequences of snitching.
Antigua & Barbuda definitely and urgently need an International law enforcement unit with subpoena and arrest powers to be handled by a special Prosecuting Unit in the office of the DPP.
WHAT THE HELL…! …ACCOMPLICE WITNESS: …MOST AVORABLE TO THE ACCUSED
NOT GIVEN IN ‘…EVIDENCE IN CHIEF:…SERIOUS BLUNDERS: …COMMEDY OF ERRORS:
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PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE: AND EXPERIENCE
From ‘…PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE,’ this ‘…ANR NEWS,’ appears ‘…MOST FAVORABLE TO THE ACCUSED.’ …HIS LORDSHIP, JUSTICE RAJIV PERSAUD,’ WILL GIVE ‘…LEGAL DIRECTIONS TO THE JURY:
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BENEFIT OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
(a) ‘…HIS LORDSHIP IS THE ‘…SOLE JUDGE OF LAW: while
(b) …THE JURY IS THE ‘…SOLE JUDGE OF FACT.’
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NOW ANR NEWS REVEALED: …THREE TROUBLING OBSERVATIONS
(i) ‘…SHODDY CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS:
(ii) …TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT: and
(iiI) …COMEDY OF ERRORS.’
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FIRST:
It shall be said that ‘…CHIEF CROWN PROSECUTOR, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (DPP), CLEMENT JOSEPH,’ may not be attributed responsibility for the apparent:
(i) ‘…SERIOUS INVESTIGATIVE BLUNDERS: and
(ii) …GLARING COMMEDY OF ERRORS: in
(iii) …MAKING A SELF- CONFESS ACCOMPLICE:
(iv) …THE ‘…STAR WITNESS: for
(v) …GENERAL PUBLIC: nor
(vi) …FOR THE CROWN THAT PROSECUTES ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLIC.’
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QUESTION:
(i) ‘…WHAT SOBERNESS INFLUENCED THE DECISION? and
(ii) …WHAT RATIONALE SO COMPELLED?
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SUGGESTIONS: FOR BEST PRACTICE
…END USING ACCOMPLICES AS PROSECUTION WITNESSES:
…END ALL COMEDY OF ERRORS
…END ALL INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL EMBARRASSMENT.’
***
NOW TO GENERAL PUBLIC
Even as a deeply perturbed might be ‘…MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND NATION;’ and who might seek to apportion blame to DPP CLEMENT JOSEPH, it is obvious that these ‘…EXISTED 6-YEARS BEFORE’ he assumed responsibility for ‘…PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS.’
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NOTE:
CRIME COMMITTED IN THE ‘…YEAR-2020: …ASSUMED OFFICE ‘…YEAR 2025.’
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STILL
The ‘DPP’ may have assigned ‘…SENIOR CROWN COUNSEL, SHANNON JONES-GITTENS TO REPRESENT HIM IN THE PROSECUTIONS: since
(a) …SHE, INFERENTIALLY, SHALL HAVE BEEN MORE FANMILIAR WITH THE CASE: for
(b) …SHE WAS NOT ONLY THE ‘…SENIOR CROWN PROSECUTOR:’ but also
(c) …SHE HAD ACTED AS DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (DPP): and
(d) …SHE EVENTUALLY HANDED OVER THE OFFICE TO HIM:’
[May 19, 2025: CNW: May 14, 2025].
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NOW: WHY THE ‘…EMBARRASSMENT AND …COMMEDY OF ERRORS?
(i) ‘…CLEARLY ILL-ADVISED DECISION MAKING ‘..ACCOMPLICE A PROSECUTION WITNESS:
(ii) …BINGING UPON THE OFFICE, PROSECUTORIAL DISASTER: thus
(iii) …SHOWING UP SERIOUS INVESTIGATIVE FLAWS AND BLUNDERS: and
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(iv) …NOT ADDUCING VITAL EVIDENCE TO THE COURT- JUDGE AND JURY: whether
(v) … SERIOUS OMISSION OR INADVERTENCE NOT LEADING SUCH ‘…CROSS EXAMINATION ANSWER, (if known) IN THE ‘…EVIDENCE IN CHIEF.’
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FOLLOW THE PROSECUTORIAL PRINCIPLE
ADDUCED ALL ‘…FACTUAL EVIDENCE: that
(a) ‘…FAVORABLE TO THE PROSECUTION:
(b) …FAVORABLE TO THE DEFENCE:
(c) …UNFAVORABLE TO THE PROSECUTION: and
(d) …UNFAVOURABLE TO THE DEFENCE:’
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JURIES ARE THE ‘…SOLE JUDGE OF THESE: THAT IS WHAT ‘…JUSTICE IS ALL ABOUT.’
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WELL:
.IN HOLES ‘…ROUND OR SQUARE,’ ALL PROSECUTORS SHALL KNOW TWO THINGS:
(i) …WHEN WITNESS IS CALLED TO THE WITNESS STAND, SUCH CALL IS TO GIVE ‘…ALL’ ‘…EVIDENCE IN CHIEF:
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HE/SHE SHALL TELL THE COURT; JUDGE AND JURY EVERYTHING (Not Hearsay):
(i) ‘…THEY KNOW BEFOR: or
(ii) …THEY HAVE WITNESSED: and
(iii) …THEY KNOW AFTER
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IT SHALL: be
(a) …THE TRUTH:
(b) …THE WHOLE TRUTH: and
(c) …NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH: for
(e) …THAT IS THE REASON:
(f) …FOR EVERY TRUTHFUL WITNESS’ TO LOOK TO HEAVEN AND APPEAL:
(g) …SO HELP ME, GOD.’ (THE OATH).
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WHETHER: on
(i) ‘…THE WITNESS STAND: and
(ii) …PARTICULARLY UNDER ‘…INTENSE CROSS EXAMINATION,’ FROM ‘…ACCOMPLICE WITNESSES: look for
(i) …SHOCKS AND SURPRISES: and
(ii) …INFORMATION CONCEALED AND NEVER ‘…FORTHRIGHTLY’ GIVEN IN THE ‘…EVIDENCE IN CHIEF.’
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MOST TROUBLING TO CROWN PROSECUTORS: is
(a) ‘…WHEN DEFENCE ATTORNEYS ‘…PULLED IT OUT,’ AS DENTISTS EXTRACT TEETH:
(b) …THUS, LEAVING CROWN ATTORNEYS IN A ‘…STUNNING STATE’ OF DISMAY: thereby
(c) …IN SHEER DIFFICULTY IN ‘…RE-EXAMINATION: and
(d) …PROMPTING TRIAL JUDGES TO ASK A QUESTION FOR CLARITY TO THE COURT: and
(e) …THE JURY TO POSE A QUESTION OR TWO FOR THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING.’
FROM ‘…TIMBUK- 1 TO ‘…TIMBK 2,’ ‘…EMPATHY’ WITH ALL ‘DPP.’
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WHAT THE HELL..!
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…WATCH IT ANR: …WITNESS NOT SO TESTIFIED: …UNDERSTANDING
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NOW:
EVIDENCE IN CHIEF:
The ‘…WITNESS,’ in his ‘…EVIDENCE IN CHIEF’ had not ‘…SO TESTIFED,’ as he not given such evidence to the ‘JURY’ on behalf of the ‘…PROSECUTION.’
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NOW:
CROSS EXAMINATION:
CLlearly, it was under:
(a) ‘…CROSS EXAMINATION:
(b) …BY QUESTIONS ASKED OF HIM: by
(c) …DEFENCE ATTORNEY:
(d) …WHETHER TRUE OR FALSE:’ he
(e) …PROVIDED SUCH ANSWER TO THE COURT.’
NO ONE KNOWS IF THESE WERE ‘…TRUE FACTS.’
SUCH ANSWERS WOULD NOT BE A CONSIDERATION BY THE JURY.
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VERY SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS:
SUCH SHALL BE A CONSIDERATION FOR THE ‘POLICE,’ WHO MUST NOW CARRY OUT INVESTIGATIONS INTO THESE ‘…VERY SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.’
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ANR MAY WISH TO GOVERN ITSELF ACCORDINGLY.
Could someone please decode that rambling mr Pompey wrote … as usual…. Too much information for the normal readers …
WHAT THE HELL…! @DUMB DOWN POMPEY: …A DUMMY OR A DUNCY RAPPER…?
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Really not sure whether the ‘REPLIER: is
(i) ‘…DUNCY DUMMY: or
(ii) …DUNCY RAPPER: or
(iii) …DUNCY YAPPER.’
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TAKING NO RESPONSIBILITY, NEITHER FOR IDIOCY NOR STUPIDITY.
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WHAT THE HELL…!
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TRY NOT TO PRESENT YOURSELF: as
“…DUNCY DAFFER.’
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SUGGESTION: …KNEEL AND PRAY:
READ ‘…TWO LINES,’ A DAY:’ …SHOULD KEEP IDIOCY AWAY.’
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It’s not that the text is filled with words beyond the average vocabulary but Pompey writes like he was taught to write that way in the police force and CANNOT write any other way.
It’s a sign of a rigid mind.
As a writer, I know the way you write for radio is different than how you’d write for tv. A social media write- up, is different than email. Academic writing and a magazine article are also different.
But with Pompey, it’ always the same overbearing, archaic, annoying, unreadable style.
Mr. Pompey. Learned man you are sir. But help an unlearned man like me to understand why is it an error for the crown to use an accomplice as state witness. This has been standard procedure the world over. Particularly for RICO cases and anti gang cases in places such as Jamaica. The entire Klansman gang was dismantled in Jamaica because of the testimony of a gang member who was the driver and bag man for the gang. So what am I missing. Help me out. I drop out of school early!!!
Pompey as you know no who I am bc this place don’t have such thing as confidentiality .. dumb down is not an offensive statement.. but I guess you a just book smart old fart ..
Pompey as you no who I am bc this place don’t have such thing as confidentiality .. dumb down is not an offensive statement.. but I guess you are just a book smart old fart ..
I read some of you all comments. One person commented, he is not Jamaican, he is not Guyanese but he is a Chinese. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Raymond Yhap is a true BORN Antiguan. Born right ya. Just like Antiguans born in America call themselves American, Raymond Yhap is a true Born Antiguan. So please remove the race card. Antiguan name call for killing an Antiguan custom officer
Who are the person (s)responsible for the other custom officers who were shot? Is it the same men now trial, who were paid by the said man? Who is the police that knew about the killing before the killing? A thorough investigation is needed and, the locals should not be doing this investigation. Not that officers here are competent but, an allegation of this magnitude, needs outside , unbiased investigation.
OH MY JESUS 108 SQUARE MILE SO MUCH DEADLY CORRUPTION.. GOD HELP US. BC THEIR IS SO MUCH MORE TO COME.SEND FOR SCOTLAND YARD.BC THIS ONE SOUND SO BIG. I NEVER KNOW THERE IS SO MUCH CORRUPTION IN ANTIGUA… HEAR IS A LITTLE WISDOM YOU ALL 5AKE SOMEONE LIFE FOR MONEY. ASK THE QUESTION NOW WILL U LIVE TO SPEND IT… WHOEVER SEND YOU ALL.WILL BE FREE.N U ALL BEHIND BARS FOR LIFE.OR BE DEAD SOON. BC PRISON LIFE IS NOT SWEET….. MY GOD WE NEED JESUS. A MAN LIFE WITH HIS FAMILY IS LIKE NOTHING TO U ALL…I PRAY they send u all to GUATEMALA..JESUS.
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