Charles wants meeting with ombudsman on sugar payments issue

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Charles wants meeting with ombudsman on sugar payments issue

FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives Pearnel Charles says that Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown was misled by information she had received regarding the handing out of payments to employees of his sugar farm in St Thomas, on Friday.

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