Radio Jamaica Limited (RJR) has advised that Milton Samuda, Attorney at law, has resigned from the Board of Directors of the company effective September 11, 2013. Samuda who was also chairman of the RJR subsidiary, Television Jamaica (TVJ) has served on the RJR board for seventeen years. As the head of the powerful Chamber of Commerce for a number of years, Samuda would have been the likely candidate to take over as Chairman for the RJR Group when the current Chairman Lester Spalding steps down.
The resignation comes in light of the controversy relating to a press interview which involved his clients, world-renown Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson. Samuda, who reportedly sat in as part of the interview, is alleged to have taken the journalist’s tapes which were later edited.
In the release issued by the company following an investigation into the matter, “There were corporate governance issues and policy breaches which the chairman of TVJ accepts.”
