Former T&T PM wins defamation appeal

Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Stuart Young has successfully defended a defamation ruling against the Trinidad Express, with the Court of Appeal affirming an award of more than TT$500,000 (J$11.5 million) in damages. In a judgment delivered Friday, appellate judges Nolan Bereaux, James Aboud, and Mark Mohammed dismissed the newspaper’s appeal, upholding an earlier ruling in Young’s favour. Writing the decision, Bereaux said trial judge Betsy Ann Lambert-Peterson made no error in finding liability or in the overall damages awarded.