Some St Ann Justices of the Peace (JPs) are angry that media reports
continue to identify a woman before the courts on fraud charges as a
JP from the parish.
“She is not a St Ann [commissioned] JP!” a senior St Ann JP told the
North Coast Times.
Various news reports have identified 50-year-old Georgia Messam-
Whyte, a paralegal, as a JP residing at Village Green, just outside St
Ann’s Bay.
Messam Whyte has been charged in a $27 million fraud claim.
She has been remanded in custody after a court appearance last week,
in the Corporate Area.
JPs reached by The Times said they were embarrassed by the fraud
allegations and that references should not be made to St Ann, as
Messam Whyte was not a JP from St Ann nor was the alleged crime
committed in the parish.
Messam Whyte was arrested on February 7 on fraud charges
following investigations into a complaint that a woman ´paid over to
her more than $27 million toward purchase of a property.
The money was paid between September 2018 and April 2019, to Mrs
Messsam Whyte who, it is alleged, failed to hand it over to the
attorney to transact the sale.
Last Thursday, February 16, at a major law enforcement press
conference in Kingston an update was given on the case. Here is
head of the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations
Branch (CTOC), Anthony McLaughlin.
Listen:
