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Brassington sues over ‘fat crook’ remark

Executive Director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington, has

Winston Brassington

within recent weeks, filed 17 lawsuits against the National Media and Publishing Company Inc and Editor-in-Chief, Adam Harris.
The latest filed last week is his most frivolous. Brassington has sued over words appearing in the popular satirical daily column, ‘Dem Boys Seh,’ which he claims was written and published falsely and maliciously and was libelous.
The specific words he claims to be libelous reads: “Brazzy, that fat crook think that dem boys is li’l babies. He trying fuh put pacifier in dem mouth filing not one, not two, but 13 lawsuits against them…He accustom putting thing in bag and this would be nothing strange to that fat crook.”
This publication, Harris said, will stand by its assertion. He insists that the words referred to by Brassington in his lawsuit are in no way libelous.
Brassington in his writ is claiming that the words used in the ‘Dem Boys Seh’ column, published on July 30, 2014, meant and were understood to mean that he was dishonest and had been guilty of a criminal activity and was habitually guilty of criminal activity and had engaged in criminal fraud for personal gain.
Brassington is also claiming that the publication was calculated to cause and did cause him serious public embarrassment, humiliation, odium and injury to his reputation both nationally and internationally, both personally in his official and professional capacity.
Harris said that Brassington should be embarrassed. He is already in court for an action he took while he was privatizing Guyana Stores. He borrowed money on the company and expected the new buyer to pay the debt. That is the action of a crook.
He also set store by Makeshwar Motilall for the Amaila Road Project knowing that the man never built a road of such magnitude. However, he swore to the press that Motilall had built roads in the United States knowing that the man had done no such thing.
Brassington is seeking in excess of $100,000.
He is also asking that the court grant a restraining order against this publication from further publishing or caused to be published the words appearing in the ‘Dem Boys Seh’ article.
Harris said that any injunction granted to Brassington would be challenged.
Apart from costs and interest Brassington is also seeking any other order the court may seem just.
Brassington is being represented by Attorneys-at-Law, Miles Fitzapatrick, Timothy Jonas and Dennis Paul.
In July, in what might be a local record in the field of litigation, Brassington through his attorneys, filed 13 lawsuits against the Kaieteur News, seeking damages totaling $1.3M for alleged libel.
The lawsuits which were served on the newspaper company and its Editor-in-Chief, Harris, were all filed between July 18 and July 21, last.
The latest frivolous lawsuit to come from Brassington was filed at the end of last month.
All the lawsuits stem from statements contained in the newspaper’s satirical column “Dem boys seh.” Those lawsuits date back as far as January.
According to Brassington, some of the statements contained in the columns were published falsely and maliciously and were libelous of him and the office he holds.
He is also claiming that the newspaper wants its readers to believe that he wrongly procured by unauthorized means, preferential financial treatment from state resources for third parties.
In addition to the cash, Brassington is seeking an injunction, restraining the newspaper from further publishing the statements that were cited in his statement of claim, as well as other statements that have similar defamatory effects.
Five of the lawsuits were filed on July 17, six on the following day, while the two others were filed on July 21.
The newspaper and its editor in chief will contest all of the lawsuits.