US removes PPP website

Feb 12, 2013 News

Following a complaint filed with the US federal government, “Blue Host.com” and Blue Host, Inc., of Provo, Utah – the domain registrar and host of PPP website “Newguymedia.com” by Rickford Burke, President of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), that website was pulled down yesterday.
Blue Host said that the website violated policy and potentially violated US federal law. Blue host had previously given Newguymedia.com 48 hours to remove any and all infringements and references to Mr. Burke.
In notifying Burke of this action, officials of Blue Host Legal Department wrote, “We have contacted the owner and have requested the violation be removed, or we would have removed the offending website.”
The actions stem from Newguymedia.com, publishing false and slanderous allegations about Burke.
The site is also alleged to have at some point published and or disseminated altered court documents and/or information, potentially a criminal violation of the law. Burke has sued the owner of the site Clinton Dubissette, of Brooklyn, New York for libel.
CGID’s communications director Jevon Suralie in a statement, yesterday blasted Guyana’s ruling PPP government. “Officials of Guyana’s ruling PPP government operate above the law with arrogance and impunity.”
He added, “This is the United States and no one is above the law.
This is a democracy in which the rule of law is supreme to all other interests and ambitions.”
Suralie accused Kwame McCoy, Information Liaison to Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar, of disseminating the story to State and PPP-friendly media.

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