Manning's son sues 'Spalk' host for libel

BRIAN Manning, the son of Prime Minister Patrick
Manning, has sued his former business partner, a popular television and
radio host and a television station, over claims that he stole a
proposal for the establishment of a professional basketball league.

Manning is accusing Nixon Dyall, Anil Roberts (host of the sports
programme Spalk) and Gayelle The Channel (the television station on
which Spalk is aired) of implying that he, being the son of the PM, was
able, through nepotism and fraudulent and/or corrupt means, to secure
Government funding for the league.

Claiming compensation for libel and/or slander, Manning says an
interview conducted by Roberts with Dyall on Gayelle had the potential
of leaving those who viewed it with the impression that he receives
special favours from his father and/or the Government through the
Ministry of Sport and/or the Sport Company of T&T and has received
$9 million for the project.

The interview with the certified sports agent, a Trinidadian residing in Philadelphia, USA, was aired on July 1 last year.

The writ was filed on Manning's behalf at the San Fernando High Court on Wednesday by attorneys Romney Thomas and Stuart Young.

In the writ, Manning says his
reputation has been seriously injured and he has suffered considerable
distress and anxiety as a result of the allegations levelled against
him. He says his reputation as a businessman has been brought into
public scandal, odium and contempt and has been lowered in the
estimation of right-thinking people generally.

Manning contends that the programme was prerecorded and, as a
result, the television station had ample opportunity to privately view
it prior to it being broadcast to the general public in Trinidad and
Tobago and Grenada and to prevent it from being aired.

Dyall said at a press conference at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in
July last year, that he and Manning were both involved in the T&T
Basketball Association (TTBA). Manning was the deputy commissioner
under Dyall but resigned and formed his own company-the National
Professional Basketball League (NFBL).

This allegedly followed Dyall's initial proposal being rejected by
the National Basketball Federation of Trinidad and Tobago (NBFTT).

Manning's subsequent proposal, however, was accepted by the NBFTT.

In response to Dyall's claims last year, Manning told the Express
that Dyall was being "completely untrue", and that he (Manning)
resigned from Dyall's company and began preparing his own proposal
because of Dyall's "shady" approach.

When I tell you that a nigger never learns, I mean that a nigger never FOCKING learns.

First Boom gone on the outlaw site and make a cont of heself defending he bachac head father and that big bison mother of a cont of his by calling people coolie. Like he feel that Zorro moustache woulda instill fear in the hearts and minds of the nigga haters or what? Well it somewhat did actually, and I did indeed secure my zabocas with duct tape, hide my wallet inside a medical textbook, chain down my TV, write "This is not a focking TV. Don't teef" on my microwave and sprayed down my goat with a mixture of gasoline, rasta oil and dog shit to fool the niggas into thinking it was a nigga woman. But I focking digress.

Now he gone and playing wrong and strong and want to sue he former bullerman lover and Anil Roberts for saying he is a lying cont. I don't understand yuh, Boom, I don't focking understand yuh. Is like yuh suing a man for calling yuh a nigger. What the fock yuh want man to call yuh? Melanin-infused gorilla species with oversized lips and scrotums the size of crocus bags? Fock man.

And hear the best. Boom formed the National
Professional Basketball League and called it NFBL.

NFBL. Now what the fock does NFBL stand for? Niggas with Focking Big Lips? Man, no wonder the NBFTT approve that league over the one by Dyall - half of the focking population of Niggadad would automatically be part of that "Niggas with Focking Big Lips" league. Fock man.