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Sep 21, 2014 News
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Nigel Dharamlall, has threatened legal actions against HGP Nightly News, following a news report Friday which alleged that the official beat a staffer over a triangular love affair.
In a letter dated yesterday to the Beterverwagting news outfit Editor-in-Chief, Basil Bradshaw about a newscast aired on Channel 16/Cable 67, Dharamlall’s lawyer, Sase Gunraj, said that his client is vehemently denying the allegations. The lawyer demanded a retraction and apology.
The newscast on Friday did not name Dharamlall but said that a top official within the Amerindian Ministry could soon lose his job over “allegations of physical assault, which stemmed from a triangular relationship.”
The newscast said that the unnamed official beat a staffer in his office. The matter was reported to the police and Minister Pauline Sukhai. The report was headlined, ‘PS IN HOT WATER AGAIN…ANOTHER CASE OF STAFF ABUSE’.
According to the lawyer, the report suggested that his client committed a criminal offence or several criminal offences; and “is abusing and/or misusing the office of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affair.”
“Please be informed the aforesaid publication is indisputably libellous and has caused my client great public ridicule, odium, contempt, embarrassment, humiliation, both locally and internationally and has caused disparage to the office of Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, which he holds.”
Dharamlall demanded that the newscast publish a retraction of the “libellous” statements and offer an unreserved apology within 48 hours from the date hereof.
“If you fail to do so, I have instructions to institute legal proceedings against you and the publisher of the HGP Nightly News.”
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