Kaieteur News’ Editor-in-Chief and one of the newspaper’s reporters were yesterday fined for contempt over the publication of a report that resulted in a murder trial being aborted in the High Court.
Editor-in-Chief Adam Harris was ordered by Justice Brassington Reynolds to pay a $150,000 fine (equivalent to half a month’s salary) with an alternative of 14 days imprisonment and reporter Rehanna Ramsay was ordered to pay $50,000 (equivalent to one month’s salary) with an alternative of seven days imprisonment. They were given 24 hours to pay the fines but ensured that payments were made within an hour of the case ending.
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