CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Japanese Caribbean Supreme Courtroom has ordered Housing Minister Richard Frederick and a media home to pay EC$60,000 (One EC greenback=US$0.37 cents) in damages for defamation to a former senior tourism official right here.
In its ruling, the Courtroom additionally ordered that Frederick and McDowall Broadcasting Company(MBC) pay curiosity on the fee of six p.c from the date of the judgment along with the claimant’s cot of EC$9,000.
The claimant, Agnes Frances, the managing director of “an award-winning firm providing promoting and advertising and marketing options to private and non-private companies “within the Japanese Caribbean, had filed a declare for defamation searching for damages, injunctive aid, curiosity, and prices on a judgment in default of protection entered on Might 15, 2019.
Frances advised the Courtroom that on August 2, August 2Frederick, the host of a tv program titled “Can I Assist You” on MBC, had made a number of defamatory statements that have been broadcast.
“The statements counsel that I abused my workplace as director of Tourism and that, in impact, I’m dishonest, corrupt, and can’t be trusted with public or non-public funds or property.
“I imagine that that is how the defamatory statements can be understood by an affordable right-thinking man or a median member of society,” mentioned Frances.
She advised the Courtroom that the defendants “knew or should have recognized that the phrases used or which means conveyed by such phrases have been unfaithful” and that the defendants “have been motivated by malice and printed the defamatory statements meaning to negatively have an effect on my status.”
Frederick and MBC didn’t file a protection throughout the time prescribed underneath the Civil Process Guidelines,2000, and judgment in default of protection was entered towards them.
The Courtroom, in February 2021, granted Frances an injunction stopping each Frederick and MBC from repeating the defamatory phrases and directed the events to file and serve the mandatory statements relating to the evaluation of damages that had been scheduled for October October 18
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