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…seeks over $200M in damages Attorney-at-Law and prominent Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram, yesterday successfully managed to secure an Injunction against the Guyana National Newspapers Limited – publisher of the Guyana Chronicle – and the Guyana Times Incorporated.Chartered Accountant Christopher RamThe editors of the two newspapers, Mark Ramotar and Nigel Williams,NFL Jerseys China, were also listed as defendants in the matter.Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang yesterday restrained the defendants from “publishing or further publishing the said or any similar libel upon the plaintiff (Chris Ram) until the hearing and determination of a summons in this cause.”The genesis of the court action and libel referred to by Chang in his ruling is a letter published in the Guyana Chronicle a week ago and in the Guyana Times on the same day.In that letter, Ram, in court documents seen by this newspaper, said that the letter purportedly written by Dave Martindale, suggests, “I am guilty of criminal offences which are punishable with imprisonment.”He said that the letter stated that “I carry out the standard ‘modus operandi’ of the organized criminal mafia which they carry out against the members of that society who are harassed and subjected to all manner of thuggery… until they succumb to the pressure, subject themselves to the mafia, and start paying protection money to the members of that mafia then they stop being harassed….In Guyana, there is no mafia but there is an individual who practises the same methods as the mafia but in the corporate world.”Ram maintains that the libelous material was published with malice on the part of the defendants namely,Cheap Jerseys Online, the Guyana Chronicle, Guyana Times and the two editors Ramotar and Williams.Nigel Williams, Guyana Times EditorRam also states in his lawsuit that by reason of the said publication, “I have been severely injured in my credit,Wholesale China Jerseys, character and reputation and in the way of my profession as an Attorney-at-Law and a managing partner of Ram and Mc Rae.”The court document states that the letter claims that Ram abuses the column space in the Stabroek News by lambasting “every company who is not a client of his accounting firm… He hardly ever seems to write about companies that are current clients of his accounting firm …So the implication is simple. If you are a fee paying client of his and you pay him hefty fees, it appears that you enjoy protection from his poisonous pen…If you don’t pay him hefty fees it appears that you will receive the brunt of his venom. The lesson of all this: . . . Change your accounting firm. . Although it might be a bitter pill to succumb to corporate gangsterism, it might be the surest way to get the corporate gangster off your back…”As a result of the damage,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, Ram claims has been done to his reputation,Sale NFL Jerseys, he has filed for damages in excess of $200M for libel printed and published by the defendants.Ram states in his court document that having regard to the hostility shown towards him by the defendants by publishing the purported letter with such bold headlines “the fact that they are the publishers of such a grave libel against me and control the publication of letters and news real or purported in the said newspapers,Wholesale Stitched Jerseys, I fear that unless restrained by this Honourable Court the defendants or either of them will continue to publish or cause to be published the said or any similar words and allegations against.”The defendants have been ordered to appear in Court before the Chief Justice next Tuesday.Guyana Chronicle Editor, Mark Ramotar |
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