–but yet couldn’t pay his taxes or mortgage

IN assessing the recent statements made by Nigel, the name Samuel Langhorne Clemens readily came to Old Kai’s mind.

You will remember Clemens by his pen name, Mark Twain. And you will also remember one of his most famous quotes, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Nigel is now being referred to as the ‘Nightingale’, which, we are told, is a small, passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old-World flycatcher, Muscicapidae, and belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called ‘Chats’.
Living up to his name, Nigel has been ‘chatting’, or rather ‘singing’ away, hoping to deflect attention from very damning allegations. But in all his melodramatic singing, he has only succeeded in incriminating himself even further.
In AFC’s statement on February 17, which started like a ‘Dear John’ letter, our ‘Nightingale’ responded to allegations that he has been representing criminals responsible for several murders during the crime wave at no cost, and also regarding accusations, that he was guilty of taking part in the compensation from Lindeners, even though he had said he was representing them pro-bono.
Old Kai was wondering whether Nigel’s version of ‘Pro-Bono’ was ‘Promise of a Bonus’ or maybe Promise of something else from those incarcerated criminals he represents. As old people say, ‘There is always some truth in a rumour’, but I will refrain from delving into that.
Nigel, however, denied such allegations, and, in so doing, made some glaring revelations, such as the fact that he personally expended millions to bring in his ballistics expert from the UK during the Linden COI, only for the individual to disprove his contentions.
He is quoted as saying, “I personally expended in excess of US $25,000 financing the professional services, travel and accommodation of the pathologist, Professor Hubert Daisley from Trinidad, and the ballistic expert, Dr. Mark Robinson from the UK.”
He goes even further, “The cost of travel for the family members of the deceased to travel to Georgetown, along with their overnight accommodation in Georgetown when they attended the post-mortem examination were also donated by me.”
That’s a lot of money! But if, by his own admission, he has access to so much cash, why was he taken before the Courts for not paying taxes for one of his companies? Rather than honouring his lawful obligation, the Courts had to instruct him to pay over the outstanding taxes which his company was unlawfully withholding.
Then there is the recent revelation that he sold the proprietress of Mae’s Schools a property which he had taken out a mortgage on; and because of his failure to settle his outstanding debt to Hand in Hand, the company had sought to recoup its losses by auctioning the property, and, in the process, displace over 300 students preparing to write the CSEC exams.
On Wednesday, February 19, our ‘Nightingale’ again, through the AFC, announced that he had privately settled the matter with the woman. This is after she was forced to bring a civil action in the High Court against him, seeking to save her property, and the future of those innocent children who stood to be affected because of this predicament.
As expected, Nigel could not shut his mouth. He continued to sing away, in hopes of softening the negative reaction from outraged members of the public, and, obviously, to extricate himself from any guilt, as he noted that the balance of the purchase price, $8M, was not paid to him until the said Wednesday.
Then, as is typical of our ‘Nightingale’, he further sang, “This is despite the millions the purchaser stated she invested in the property.”
The first point here is that the woman had to be crazy to make a full payment to Nigel, and then hope that, in his good faith, she would have received the transport. She had paid $4M upfront, and another $8M subsequently. Clearly, she had some suspicion to justify not making that final payment until she was fully satisfied of getting sole possession of that transport for the land which Hand in Hand was also laying claim to.
Her suspicion proved true, and we have to ask at this point: Why did it take the woman being forced to go public with her story, and then moving to the Courts for Nigel to rush and settle the matter with her?
This situation has been brewing for several years. Why could he not, with all his ‘legal expertise’ and ‘good intentions’, have sorted this situation out before it reached such a crisis stage?
Old Kai also hopes that the people at GRA are taking note of the millions Nigel claims he is spending left, right and centre, as it would be interesting to know if those millions correspond with his tax return figures over the past few years.
On a closing note, I have also noticed some of the defenders of our ‘Nightingale’ in the past have taken to labelling him a patriot in the ‘cause of struggle’. I will end with Mark Twain’s definition of a Patriot: “The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”