ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Magistrate Michael Laudat Friday ordered former prime minister Edison James to be committed to prison awaiting possible bail as the trial continued into the incitement case involving senior members of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP).
James, 80, served as prime minister from 1995-2000 and has been at the center of an alleged incitement case with former opposition leader Lennox Linton and the current UWP leader Dr. Thomson Fontaine.
The former Prime Minister was placed in a holding cell at the Magistrate’s court in Roseau.
According to the charge against James, on February 7th, 2017, he was involved in incitement by encouraging, persuading, or instigating by words, causing persons to jeopardize the safety or endanger the public peace, following a UWP meeting at which calls were made for the resignation of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
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