End in sight for expensive SIPT trial, says Chief Justice

#TurksandCaicos, January 15, 2023 – Updates have come from the Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos islands regarding an ongoing trial of interest to Turks and Caicos Residents.

Her Ladyship, Mabel Agyemang in her presentation on the Legal Year Opening on January 4th 2023, said:  “As I reported last year, upon the severing of the information in the case of R v. Michael Misick in June 2021, the first of the cases: being R v. Floyd Basil Hall and 3 others commenced in July 2021 and is in its final stages.

I am confident that we shall see the end of the trial by the end of the first quarter of this year, to be followed by the second trial: R v. Michael Misick and 2 others.” The CJ said.

The Special Investigation and Prosecution Trial, which started in 2016 or seven years ago had hit a $30 Million bill in 2018; spending annually on the trial has been budgeted at just under $4 million by the Attorney General’s Chambers.