Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur has filed a suit against the Kaieteur News seeking in excess of $500 million in damages for what he claims is libel contained in its ‘Dem Boys Seh’ columns and news reports about the targeting of the paper.
Sattaur, through an Ex-Parte application filed by the firm Satram and Satram, also managed to secure an interim injunction retraining publisher Glenn Lall, editor Adam Harris and the National Media and Publishing Company Limited—named as the defendants in the action—from further writing, printing, publishing or circulating the alleged defamatory words contained in editions published between August 31 and September 23.
Sattaur contends that after he initiated an investigation into the importation of two vehicles by remigrants Narootandeo and Gharbassi Brijnanan that resulted in the seizure of the two vehicles, Lall, Harris and the newspaper began a campaign to “defame, malign, degrade and humiliate” him in the performance of his duties as Commissioner-General and in his personal life.
He asked for the injunction out of fear that the newspaper would continue to be used to defame him.
Justice Sandra Kurtzious granted the injunction and an in-chambers hearing is set for October 14 on Sattaur’s application
