Businessman Robert Badal has sued the publishers of the Evening News and the Guyana Chronicle for $30 million following the publication of a “scandalous and libellous” article entitled “Robert Badal joins the AFC” earlier this month.
According to court documents, Badal is seeking an injunction restraining Television Guyana Inc and the Guyana National Newspapers Limited from publishing any more defamatory articles about him.
The Managing Director of the Guyana Pegasus and Guyana Stockfeeds Limited claims that on November 2 he endorsed the Alliance for Change (AFC) during a press conference. On the Evening News which was broadcast that night and in the Guyana Chronicle the next day false statements were nade against him.
He said in the documents that, “There are no grounds for the defendants’ suggestion that I have been anything less than scrupulous in my business dealings or that I have ever mistreated or caused to mistreat any employee.”
Badal said he will suffer “irreparable harm if the defendants are not restrained from repeating their slander and defamation”.
