And while Matura Shepherd made meaningful progress on that case, she's had to back-pedal on another. As has been widely reported, she's the attorney for the Pickwoad family, who is challenging the title to a parcel of land held by Marvin Castillo and Maud Williams. They happen to be the son and mother of Beverly Castillo, the recently resigned CEO of the Ministry of Natural Resources - and in media interviews Matura Shepherd had accused Castillo of using her official position to swing a parcel of land into her family's possession.
That would be an abuse, and today Matura-Shepherd had to issue a retraction saying that allegation was unfounded. It says, quote:
"On 30 and 31 December 2013 I made certain statements on Channel 5 news and in the Amandala. In these statements I implied that Mrs. Beverly Castillo abused her office as CEO in the Ministry of Natural Resources in order to facilitate title to a specific property for her mother and son. These statements were unfounded and Mrs. Castillo has consistently denied that she abused her office in the manner that I implied and I fully accept her denial. I retract the statements made and apologise to her for the harm done to her name and reputation as a result of my statements."
Now, we stress this sort of thing happens from time to time in the media, but in our experience, we've never seen an attorney have to issue a retraction for his or her public statements, so this would be a first.
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