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Asst. Commissioner Ramnarine sues Chronicle for $5M
Outspoken Assistant Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine is suing the Guyana National Newspapers Limited, publishers of the Guyana Chronicle, for $5M, over defamatory statements carried by the publication two weeks ago.
Attorneys-at-law Khemraj Ramjattan and Neil Persram, acting on behalf of Ramnarine, filed the action in the High Court on Monday. It was subsequently served on the newspaper yesterday.
Assistant Commissioner of Police, David Ramnarine
According to the lawsuit, Ramnarine is seeking damages in excess of $5M for libel and defamatory statements published in the Guyana Chronicle on November 6th, under the caption “Corruption allegations leveled against Superintendent Ramnarine”
The article quoted two men, who claimed to be miners, accusing Ramnarine of improper conduct.
Ramnarine is also seeking an injunction restraining the defendant “by itself, servants and agents from repeating and/or publishing the aforesaid, or any similar defamatory statements of and concerning the plaintiff.”
Since the publication, which was carried on the front page of the newspaper, there has been no formal investigation by the police on the allegations made.
In fact, apart from the now deceased Commissioner of Police Henry Greene, who the persons making the allegations against Ramnarine claimed to have informed, no one in the Force’s hierarchy seems to know about it.
The state-owned Guyana Chronicle was given 10 days to respond, failing which judgement will be granted in favour of Ramnarine.
Ramnarine, a former Commander of the Force’s Interior Division was removed from frontline policing duties earlier this year following a much publicized run-in with Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police had claimed that he was forced to beg for assistance from members of the public to feed his ranks during last year’s general and regional elections.
Rohee had publicly expressed a loss of confidence in the officer and had requested that current acting Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell take disciplinary action against him.
Although Ramnarine has faced no formal censorship, he was relieved of his Commander posting and banished to the defunct Department of Development.
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