Latest update November 26th, 2024 1:00 AM
AFC Ramayya publicly apologizes to PPP executive
As mandated by the High Court in Berbice, Alliance for Change (AFC) Parliamentarian and Executive Member,
Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya
Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya, issued a public apology on the live television on Saturday evening on Dave’s Television Channel Eight.
At the time he was moderating the Programme, ‘Alliance on the Move’.
Dr. Ramayya was recently found to have committed libel by Justice Nareshwar Haranand at the Berbice High Court. The libel as contained in remarks about People’s Progressive (PPP) Executive Secretary, Mr. Zulfikar Mustapha, on a television programme called “Issues of the People”, aired on DTV Channel 8 in Berbice back in 2006.
That was at the height of the then election season campaigns. Mustapha held the post of Region Six Chairman at the time.
Both the television station and Ramayya were slapped with a libel lawsuit in 2012. The judge mandated Ramayya to publicly apologize via print and electronic media within seven days of his ruling (which was last week). Ramayya did so on Saturday evening, expressing his apologies on behalf of himself and DTV-8 to Mr. Mustapha on national television. “And that’s the end of that matter, with a big full stop,” Ramayya said after his public apology.
In addition to the public apology, Ramayya was mandated to pay the sum of $250,000 to Mustapha, which the politician (Mustapha) says he will donate to charity.
AFC leader, Khemraj Ramjattan, and Vice-Chair, Moses Nagamootoo represented the defendant, while Attorney Adrian Anamaya, represented the Plaintiff.
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