JAMAICA’S Supreme Court Wednesday cleared Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith in a lawsuit that claimed that a US$99,000 gift towards her failed 2022 Commonwealth secretary general bid had been mishandled.<\/p>\n
Acting Puisne Judge Justice Dale Staple, in his judgement, said: “It is my considered view that the claimant does not have the required standing to bring this claim and it should therefore be struck out… JAMAICA’S Supreme Court Wednesday cleared Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith in a lawsuit that claimed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/121115-court-clears-johnson-smith-in-case-brought-by-jamaican-american.jpg",500,281,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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