KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Native Authorities Minister Desmond McKenzie has filed a defamation go well with towards a senior official of the principle opposition Individuals’s Nationwide Occasion (PNP) following statements made at a public assembly on March 2 this yr.
McKenzie, who can be the deputy chief of the ruling Jamaica Labour Occasion (JLP), is arguing that he had been defamed when the PNP’s Damion Crawford. He made statements on the assembly that contained “phrases that have been false and defamatory,” and in consequence, he has suffered “damage, loss and injury.”
Within the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, McKenzie mentioned that he had been put to “expense and suffered loss and injury together with injury to his repute” since Crawford’s statements and that he has needed to reply questions from financiers and enterprise pursuits and even abnormal Jamaican residents about his integrity.
McKenzie additional claims that he “has been shunned by people in public areas who’ve concluded that he was concerned in malfeasance” and that regardless of the defendant’s receipt of a letter of demand dated March 4, 2025, which set out all of the related info, Crawford has failed, uncared for and/or refused to apologize, retract or supply any amends in any way.
McKenzie is in search of aggravated and exemplary damages plus curiosity.
