Deputy Political Leader of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), George Prime says he is still to be served any libel suit by Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell in connection with the 2000 Switzerland bribery allegations.

"I have not been served with anything up to now", Prime told GRENADA TODAY early Tuesday morning.

Just over a week ago, a local media house reported that Prime along with Grenada Cablevision Limited had been sued by the Grenadian leader.

Informed sources told GRENADA TODAY that local attorney-at-lawyer, Michael Sylvester has filed writs in the Registry of the Supreme Court against both Prime and Cablevision on behalf of Dr. Mitchell.

According to Prime, he had heard these reports but nothing of the sorts have been served on him. Well-placed sources have said that the writs filed by Sylvester did not make any specific reference to the libelous words that Prime alleged used against Dr. Mitchell. "I saw the suit that was filed. All it contained was a speech which George (Prime) made on Cablevision about the bribery allegation", he remarked. "The suit did not specify what is the speech was considered as libelous. One would have to wait and see", he said.

Prime had addressed the nation in the wake of the allegations made against the Prime Minister in the April issue of the Miami-based Offshore Alert about his trip to Switzerland and the meeting at the home of German fraudster, Eric Resteiner.

Dr. Mitchell admitted receiving "approximately US$15, 000.00" from Resteiner to cover the cost of a trip by a Grenada delegation and not US$500, 000.00 as a bribe to appoint Resteiner as a diplomat as claimed by the publication.

Sylvester is said to be acting in concert with a Jamaican Queen's Counsel who has been doing legal work for Prime Minister Mitchell for the past year.

The senior lawyer was first brought into Grenada by Special Prosecutor, Hugh Wildman of Jamaica to help in the Criminal Libel case brought by Dr. Mitchell against the editor of the GRENADA TODAY newspaper.

Meanwhile, a source close to Cable & Wireless said that a close relative of the Grenadian leader had approached the telecommunication company inquiring whether it would be interested in an out-of-court settlement with the Prime Minister in one of several libel suits filed in connection with the Resteiner matter.

The source said that it was not immediately known whether the relative was acting on his own or on behalf of the Prime Minister.
Since taking office in June 1995, Dr. Mitchell has filed law suits against George Worme, Grenada Today Limited, Eddie Frederick, Stanley Charles, the Grenada Broadcasting Network, Leroy Noel, Bernard Jones, Spice Isle Review, Cable & Wireless, Grenada Cablevision Limited, George Prime, David Marchant, KYC News among others.