JLP wants named of former opposition legislator cleared

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it still wants the name and reputation of its former parliamentarian, Joseph Hibbert, cleared even though he died of a massive heart attack over the weekend.
Hibbert, 65, an engineer, died at hospital. In 2009 he resigned as junior transport and works minister, less than a week after the British firm, Mabey and Johnson, pleaded guilty to bribing officials in Jamaica and other countries to win bridge-building contracts in the 1990s, while he was chief technical director at the ministry.
JLP general secretary, Dr Horace Chang in a statement, said he hoped that Hibbert’s name would b cleared even though he has passed.