PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former police commissioner Gary Griffith has filed a lawsuit towards Nationwide Safety Minister Fitzgerald Hinds, additionally looking for an injunction stopping the senior authorities minister or anybody related to him from talking, additional publishing or making different “comparable defamatory” feedback about him.
The legal professional for Griffith contends that their consumer had been defamed when Hinds appeared on state-run tv station TTT, posted on October 29, 2023, on the TTT Stay on-line platform on Fb.
“In his interview, the defendant made a number of defamatory statements in regards to the claimant, Mr Gary Griffith, and his capabilities as police commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago.
“Although the defendant prevented using the claimant’s title as he printed or brought about to be printed his defamatory phrases, the defendant referred to the claimant and the efficiency of his capabilities as commissioner of police via using direct statements and innuendos,” mentioned the lawsuit that was filed on January 18 this 12 months and served on the minister a day later.
The declare mentioned the phrases utilized by Hinds surrounding the coverage for issuing firearm person’s licenses (FUL) and printed would lead anybody acquainted with Griffith to consider he was the individual referred to by Hinds.
“The defendant’s defamatory statements can be interpreted by bizarre cheap viewers and listeners aware of the issues within the public area since August 2021 concerning the non-renewal of the claimant’s contract as commissioner of police; the three investigations that have been initiated by the Authorities and the Police Service Fee (PSC) into the problem of firearms licenses; the experiences within the media and the feedback made within the public area by the Prime Minister and the defendant to conclude that the claimant was the topic of the mentioned defamatory statements and that the mentioned defamatory statements referred to the claimant.
“The defamatory statements of and in regards to the claimant contained within the mentioned interview are solely inaccurate and unfaithful,” the lawsuit claims, including that Hinds, as Nationwide Safety Minister and an legal professional, ought to have been conscious his feedback amounted to an accusation that Griffith had breached the regulation within the efficiency of his capabilities as commissioner.
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