Faber Says Shyne will Lose in Court…Again  

Earlier in the newscast, we reported on the legal battle between Moses “Shyne” Barrow and Tracy Taegar-Panton, who are once again facing off in court. We also heard from former Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber, who was expelled from the party by Barrow. Faber claims that proper procedures were not followed, and no charges were brought against him, making him confident that the court will rule in Taegar-Panton’s favor. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Patrick Faber, Former Area Representative, Collet

“As we are concerned and we could have seen there is only one way in which members of the party could be expelled, and that is through the ethics committee. The ethics committee, after considering a charge agreed upon by the central executive, would have to consider whatever is being brought and one of the possible penalties could be an expulsion. None of that was done in the case of myself and my colleagues. And as far as we’re concerned. There is no other way for an expulsion to happen that did not happen. There are other ways of making changes, if you will or removing people from the NPC, from the central executive and so on. But none of that speaks to expulsion. And so when it is that an expulsion is pronounced in the manner in which Shyne and Peyrefitte did that has to be completely illegal and cannot stand and I’m pretty confident that the court is going to rule in our favor in that manner because the law is very, or what was the rule, was very straightforward in terms of that.”

 

Reporter

“At what point was there to have been an ethics committee meeting?”

 

Patrick Faber

“Once a charge is brought, somebody would’ve had to put something in writing. And we all know that this came because we were very outspoken about the injustices that we felt were happening within the party structure. And so somebody would’ve had to put pen to paper and a complaint to the central executive. The central executive would then need to determine whether this was something valid, send it to the ethics committee, and then the ethics committee go through the process, which by the way, is where due process and natural justice comes into play. You cannot expel somebody without giving them a chance to speak up for themselves. And then of course, there is the right to appeal even after the ethics committee pronounces you as expelled or suspended or whatever other penalty can me. You have a right then  to appeal to the NPC, which was never afforded to us. So that is how you know, again, that the process was flawed.”