An accountant has been appointed to look into the business affairs of companies of former financier R Allen Stanford.

Joseph Doway, an accountant, is facing 48 charges of forgery and uttering related to his duties to deduct statutory remittances from a construction company’s employees’ salaries.

A former executive in one of R Allen Stanford’s companies on Tuesday described the accused swindler’s efforts to expand his financial network’s investment in private equities, as his lawyers continued building a case that Stanford focused on legitimate business deals.

Former Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) accountant Elmeade Jarvis yesterday failed to get the stamp of approval from the Court of Appeal

The implications of the two-year jail term imposed on the former accountant of Medical Benefits Scheme would not have been lost on the thousands of public servants employed by government in this country.

Pardon us if we are not among those readily accepting as closure to the Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) scandal the trial and eventual sentencing of the three out of a cast of many.

Former accountant at Medical Benefits Scheme (MBS) Elmeade Jarvis was this morning sentenced to two years on each of three counts of fraudulent conversion, a sentence that will run concurrently.

Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago (RBTT), formerly Caribbean Banking Corporation (CBC) customer service manager Ira Charles said