Georgetown : Opposition leader and former President Bharrat Jagdeo pointed out that he had only made initial comments about David Patterson’s suitability as the Chairman of GECOM and on Thursday (October 19, 2017), during a press conference, Jagdeo said that he has since had time to review Patterson’s CV. Jagdeo disclosed that there are concerns about Patterson’s impartiality and the truthfulness of the qualifications he has listed on his CV.
According to him, there is still to be a reliable confirmation that Patterson did function as the Chief Justice in Grenada in 1987. If that qualification is proved as an untruth, Jagdeo stated that Patterson’s integrity comes into questions and would disqualify him as a person ‘fit and proper’ to function as the Chairman of GECOM. “If it is a lie and Patterson put it on his CV, then that would immediately disqualify him from being able to act with integrity. Second, if the CV was prepared elsewhere, if it was doctored, either way something is wrong with this…we will be looking deeper at this issue,” the Opposition Leader said.
Relative to his impartiality, Jagdeo stated that research has since showed that Patterson is partisan, in favour of the PNC, having been included, as a pall bearer, in a private ceremony at the funeral of the former president and PNC leader, Desmond Hoyte. His impartiality is also questioned given his participation in the group called ‘Rally Around the PNC’.
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