GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – A Excessive Courtroom has granted a New York-based Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad, a default judgment in opposition to information reporter, Travis Chase, over a submit made on social media earlier this yr.
Justice Fidela Corbin-Lincoln has but to find out the quantity of damages Chase should pay the businessperson. Ahmad had initially sought $100 million (One Guyana greenback equals 0.004 cents) from Chase for libel.
The Excessive Courtroom order states that Chase didn’t defend the declare, including that “Judgment in default of protection is entered in opposition to the defendant for an quantity to be decided by the courtroom primarily based on the affidavit proof already earlier than the courtroom”.
Ahmad has till July 1, 2025 to file any extra submissions.
The courtroom order dated June 10, 2025, was issued after Excessive Courtroom Marshals failed twice to serve Chase at his office personally.
“The Respondent/Defendant has didn’t enter an look in these proceedings, and he has additionally didn’t serve and file a Defence in Excessive Courtroom Motion herein inside forty-two (42) days of service, that’s, on or earlier than the seventeenth April 2025, as prescribed by the Civil Process Guidelines,” Ahmad’s legal professionals Darshan Ramdhani and Rajendra Jaigobin mentioned in courtroom papers.
Ahmad additionally needs the Excessive Courtroom to order Chase to take away the “patently fabricated, concocted, false and malicious posts” from his Fb account that had been made on January 29, thirtieth, thirty first, February 1, ninth, thirteenth, and the 14th on Fb.
Ahmad’s legal professionals say that, opposite to the posts, he was by no means arrested or questioned by the police about cash laundering and gold smuggling, neither is he a part of any felony gang as contended by the social media posts.
