D.F.C. inquiry will resume at month

In the wake of the death of Commission Chair David Price, the investigations into the mismanagement at the Development Finance Corporation have faded into the media background. But tonight the commission appears to be headed back to the front page. Co-chairs Merlene Bailey-Martinez and Herbert Lord met on Tuesday to discuss their next move and according to Bailey-Martinez, the new schedule for the commission will include only three more days of hearings: two public and one en-camera. Those hearings are tentatively set for the end of January. Martinez says the abridged arrangement is in compliance with the statutory instrument gazetted on December twenty-third which mandated that the Commission “endeavour” to conclude its work as soon as possible. And with Herbert Lord’s appointment to the Supreme Court, he will have much less time to dedicate to the Commission. The list of witnesses to take the stand in the televised sessions is uncertain, but that line up may very well include Prime Minister Said Musa, former Minister of Finance Ralph Fonseca, former board members Bob Bou Nahra and David Courtenay, as well as prominent clients like James JanMohammed and Arnaldo “Papi” Pena and of course, the former Chief Executive Officer of the D.F.C., Troy Gabb. The report of auditor Mark Hulse is expected by January nineteenth and should drive much of the questioning.