Following the revelation of recorded conversations and text messages exchanged between PNP officials regarding the exchange of money, our news centre has been making several attempts to get an on-the-record response from the people involved for inclusion in our report.
Mahiri Stewart has the details of our extensive efforts to get a comment from the leadership of the People’s National Party.
We called Dr. Dayton Campbell’s mobile phone seven times between Tuesday and Wednesday, to afford him the opportunity to respond to the matter.
He was called five times between 2pm and 5pm on Tuesday, January 28.
On the fifth occasion he answered the phone but refused to give us a response on the record.
We attempted to contact him a further three times, Wednesday January 29.
Those calls were placed between 2pm and 3:30pm.
All three calls went to voicemail.
On Wednesday evening Dr. Campbell called our Deputy Executive Editor, George Davis, and spoke with him for 39 minutes.
He was asked repeatedly to provide an ‘on the record’ response to the issues raised for inclusion in the report..
Dr. Campbell steadfastly refused, saying he would no longer be commenting publicly on any matter concerning Lawrence Rowe.
At the end of the conversation, which began at 5:22pm, he again refused to entertain a request for an official comment, on the record about the issues, despite being on the phone for 39 minutes.
We cannot report any of what he said during the conversation because he was adamant that he was off-the-record. His discussion with Davis was the second off-the-record conversation with our newscentre.
On Tuesday, January 28, he spoke with Ricardo Brooks for six-minutes-thirty-seconds. He also refused our request then to go on the record.
Kingston’s Mayor, Andrew Swaby was called seven times between Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
Four calls were placed to his mobile phone on Tuesday, between 2pm and 5pm.
Another three calls were placed to his mobile phone on Wednesday, between 2pm and 3:30pm.
All calls went to voicemail.
Councillor Facey was contacted eleven times between Tuesday and Thursday.
None of the calls were answered.
Messages were left with both Facey and Mayor Swaby asking for a return call in relation to the story being pursued.
We also attempted to contact Lawrence Rowe by telephone, multiple times over the past three days.
His phone did not even ring.
See link to previous story below.
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