The Ethnic Relations Com-mission (ERC) has taken more persons to court in relation to racial incitement.
In a statement yesterday, the ERC says it commenced legal action against eight defaulters- three in December, 2020, four in January and one so far in February, 2021. When their cases were called in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, the ERC said that five persons pleaded guilty to offences committed separately. The charges filed were for exciting hostility or ill will on the grounds of race under the Racial Hostility Act and for causing racial or ethnic violence or hatred under the Representation of the People Act.
The ERC said that the five defendants who pleaded guilty are John Gobin, Lashonna Chester, Stacy Smartt, Glynis Gibson and Tiffiny Greene. They were all fined for the offences committed on separate dates.
