Charles Ceres sues for libel Claims in excess of $200 M from Jagdeo, Guyana Times, Kaieteur News

Jul 14, 2019 News

Businessman and prominent engineer, Charles Ceres, and his wife, Ndibi Schweirs, have filed a lawsuit against Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo, Kaieteur News, and Guyana Times for in excess of $200 Million for libel.

Charles Ceres

The libel suit is due to information publicized as it relates to the massive land give away claims by Jagdeo.
In the statement of claim, Ceres and his wife are seeking damages in excess of $200 M from Jagdeo for statements he made for claiming that Schweirs, through her husband, obtained public lands at Canje Creek, Bohemia and Liliendaal by corrupt, illegal and criminal means.
The parties are also seeking damages in excess of $200M for the publishing of the unsubstantiated and defamatory statements via the People’s Progressive Party’s FaceBook page and Youtube channels.
The applicants are also seeking in excess of $200M each from News publications, Kaieteur News and Guyana Times for publishing articles based on Jagdeo’s claims that the couple might have obtained the said lands via immoral, improper, illegal and criminal means.
In addition to the sum worth in damages, the claimants are also seeking retractions and apologies from the news outlets.
In the interim, the parties also asked the Court to consider granting them an injunction against the newspapers to prevent or their servants from publishing further defamatory statements.
The matter is set to come at the Georgetown High Court at 2:15 pm on July 24, 2019 before Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln.
Ceres had announced that he intends to take the Opposition Leader to Court over claims he made against at a press conference last month.
Providing file numbers for the businessman’s land allocations to be sourced, Jagdeo had accused Ceres of obtaining 1,297.1 acres in the Canje Creek, Region Six, and 112 acres in Bohemia, Region Six.
He said that Ceres got a further 5,000 acres, but did not say where the land is located. He spoke of another plot of land at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, for which no further details were provided.
These statements were all fabrications, a comment that upset Jagdeo who proceeded to accuse Kaieteur News of editorializing.
Kaieteur News is offering Mr Ceres and his wife, an unqualified apology if it did carry or portray Jagdeo’s comments as truth.
The newspaper was at pains to carry the counterclaims alongside Jagdeo’s statements.
While Jagdeo claimed four separate allocations were made to Ceres, the businessman categorically refuted that, providing information that he was only allocated two plots of land.

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