| …cites ‘defamatory, libelous’ letter The New Guyana Pharmaceutical Company Incorporated (GPC Inc) owned by Queens Atlantic Investment Inc. (QAII) has filed a lawsuit in the High Court seeking in excess of $200M from the National Media and Publishing Company Limited which prints this newspaper and Emile Mervin.Both defendants now have up to 10 days to file an appearance or the matter would proceed,Arizona Diamondbacks Gregor Blanco Jersey, and possible judgment be given in absentia.Corporate Secretary and Legal Advisor of New GPC Inc. in the writ served has authorised Attorneys-at-Law Edward Luckhoo SC,Wholesale NFL China Jerseys, Robert Ramcharran and Ronald Burch-Smith to do all things necessary to receive the money on behalf of the company.In the endorsement of claim submitted, it is pointed out that New GPC Inc. states that they are seeking damages in excess of $200M for libel contained in a letter published on pages four and seven of the issue of the Kaieteur News for 4th August,Bobby Orr Jersey, 2010 and headed “The entire hydro project should be sent back to the drawing board.”New GPC Inc. is also seeking to have the court grant an injunction restraining the newspaper and Mervin from further publishing or causing to be published the same or similar words which the company says are defamatory to them.Specific reference was made to the section of the letter which stated that: “Right now, the focus is on the facts that are before the QAII March 2008 MOU one of the group’s companies, the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation, was receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for medical and pharmaceutical supplies to the Ministry of Health and the Georgetown Hospital Corporation, so what the March MOU basically did was to put a legal covering on what were already operational agreements involving supplies and payments,”The company is seeking to have a restraining order saying that publishing words to the effect suggest the that New GPC Inc receipt of proceeds for contracts to supply medical and pharmaceutical is or was illicit, illegal,Jerseys From China, unethical, dishonest, corrupt or in collusion with the Government of Guyana or Government Agencies, National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL).The company is also seeking to have this newspaper not publish anything to the effect that such contracts were covered up or legitimised by a Memorandum of Understanding entered into between Queens Atlantic Investment Inc. and the Government of Guyana.The company is contending that the MOU referred by Mervin in the letter had nothing to do with medical supplies rather it was for the acquisition of the Sanata Complex in Ruimveldt Industrial Site.The writ contends that the MOU was between the Government of Guyana, QAII and a group of companies including Global Textile (Guyana) Inc., Healthcare Life Sciences Inc., Global Printing and Graphics and Graphics Inc. and Global Hardware Inc.The company is insisting that the MOU dealt with the refurbishment of the textile plant and did not touch or concern the trade of the New GPC Inc. in sourcing and supplying medical supplies.This most recent course of court action against this newspaper comes on the heels of a lawsuit by Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo.Chief Justice (ag), Ian Chang, in July granted an interim injunction,Jerseys From China, filed by Attorneys-at-law Anil Nandlall and Euclin Gomes, restraining Frederick Kissoon, Kaieteur News Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris, and the National Media and Publishing Company Limited,Nike NFL Jerseys China, publisher of Kaieteur News, from reprinting the words or similar ones as contained in the column.In an ex-parte application for the interim injunction, the President claimed that the article suggests that he is a racist and that “by extension, the State and Government of Guyana, practise racism as an ideology, dogma, philosophy and policy.” |
