Gibson Trial Set for May 2023

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A judge has set a May 2023 trial date for the Adrian Gibson corruption trial after refusing to step down from hearing the case. 

Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson denied a motion by Murrio Ducille KC,  who had argued that the public might perceive bias because her deceased husband Peter Bethell once served as a Cabinet Minister in the Progressive Liberal Party government while Gibson is a sitting MP for the Free National Movement.

Bethell died on July 22, 2000 when Gibson was just 18 years old.

Grant-Thompson has been remarried for many years.

Ducille supplemented his arguments before Grant-Thompson delivered her ruling on Thursday.

In his additional arguments, Ducille suggested that the judge was biased because she was appointed under the PLP, which she dismissed as a “disgraceful allegation.”

Gibson is accused of benefiting from contracts that were awarded by the Water and Sewerage Corporation while he served as its executive chairman.

Prosecutors said Gibson acted along with Elwood Donaldson Jr, the former general manager of the Water and Sewerage Corporation, his cousin, Rashae Gibson; his campaign general Joann Knowles, Peaches Farquharson and Jerome Missick.