Topic: conflict of interest

After two days of deliberations, jurors today acquitted former National Housing Development Trust chairman Geoffry Ebanks of charges of breach of trust and conflict of interest.

Senior public officer Geoffry Ebanks will have to wait at least another day to learn his fate as jurors did not reach a verdict by end of day Wednesday on charges of breach of trust and conflict of interest.

While both the prosecution and defence attorneys in the breach of trust trial of Geoffry Ebanks agreed he is no 'evil mastermind', that was where their common ground ended as they made their closing arguments on Monday.

The former chair of Cayman's National Housing Development Trust has admitted he made a mistake when he diverted five dozen truckloads of fill material to land in which he had a vested interest. 

A former National Housing Development Trust board member told the court they were caught off guard and left scrambling to separate fact from fiction when media reports surfaced of a potential conflict of interest with the then board chairman.

Former National Housing Development Trust chairman Geoffry William Ebanks is on trial for breach of trust and conflict of interest in relation to 60 truckloads of cleared vegetation that he diverted to properties belonging to him and his father.

The trial of former National Housing Development Trust chairman Geoffry Ebanks has been delayed after potential conflicts with jurors were raised at the opening of the trial on Thursday, 1 Feb.

Former National Housing Development Trust chairman Geoffry Ebanks has denied charges in relation to dozens of truckloads of fill that disappeared under his watch during a government project earlier this year.

Geoffry Ebanks, the now former chairman of the Cayman Islands National Housing Development Trust, has been charged with breach of trust and conflict of interest in relation to the removal of fill from a government housing site, the Anti-Corruption Commission has announced.

Contrary to previous reports, it appears there is no evidence that Environment Minister Dwayne Seymour had a conflict of interest in a Cabinet decision approving a dock project in Salt Creek.

Environment Minister Dwayne Seymour has been accused of failing to disclose a conflict of interest last December, when he presented a paper to Cabinet that recommended a developer be granted a coastal works permit.