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Sep 22, 2014 Letters

Dear Sir,
I act on behalf of Mr. Clifton Bacchus, Proprietor of the SleepIn International Hotel of 24 Brickdam, Stabroek, Georgetown, Guyana.
On Sunday, the 21st day of September, 2014, the Kaieteur News published an article under the caption ‘SLEEP-IN OWNER ACCUSED OF HARASSING ELDERLY BLIND MAN FOR PROPERTY’.  The clear intention of that publication was to convey to your readership that my client is harassing, coercing and/or otherwise unduly influencing Joshua Hector, his neighbour, to sell his property to him.
It is obvious that your newspaper is continuing its campaign against my client, using it as a weapon to defame him and damage the goodwill and image of his business. As a result, my client was, in the recent past, forced to institute legal proceedings against you, including seeking and obtaining injunctive reliefs.
Notwithstanding, you have continued your unwarranted, personal vendetta against my client. This most recent publication is yet another example.
Further, I am instructed to set the record straight on this matter. I do so now.
1.   My client was approached several years ago by the children of Joshua Hector, with a proposal for sale of the said property to him. During the negotiations connected therewith, Joshua Hector refused to sell and that was the end of the process.
2.   Over the last decade, my client has enjoyed a harmonious and amicable relationship with the said gentleman, to the point where he allows agents and/or servants of my client to access his premises to facilitate necessary works to my client’s property, when the need arises.
3.   Over the last decade, my client has never received a single complaint from Joshua Hector regarding drainage or other issues whatsoever in relation to the contiguous properties.
Please be informed the aforesaid publications are indisputably libellous and have caused my client great public ridicule, odium, contempt, embarrassment, humiliation, both locally and internationally, and have caused disparage to my client as well as to his business.
In the circumstances, I am instructed to demand, as I hereby do, that you publish a retraction of the libellous statements of and concerning my client along with an unreserved apology, giving same, equal or greater prominence than that enjoyed by the libellous statements, within 24 (twenty four) hours from the date hereof. If you fail to do so, I have instructions to institute legal proceedings against you and the publisher of the Kaieteur News.
The public is not unaware that the very vendetta, to which Kaieteur News claims to be subjected by others, is now being frequently practised by it on a regular basis. My client is a victim, as he has firsthand experience.
Sase R. Gunraj
Attorney-at-Law

Editor’s note:
Readers would recognize that the publication intended no malice. It contained comments by the homeowner and the newspaper was at pains to call and solicit a comment from Mr. Clifton Bacchus whose comments were included in the story.
The newspaper was merely reporting the complaints of a frustrated old man, a man with whom Bacchus said he had no problem and we believe him.

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