Justice Diana Insanally on Wednesday dismissed a motion for contempt brought by former Ethnic Relations Commission Chairman Juan Edghill against Kaieteur News and its columnist Freddie Kissoon, agreeing that the proceedings were inappropriate and bad in law.
Justice Insanally also awarded costs in the sum of $50,000 each to the respondents, that is, the National Media and Publishing Company Limited, which publishes Kaieteur News, and Kissoon.
Last August, Senior Counsel Ashton Chase, filed the motion on Edghill’s behalf following the publication of a Kissoon column, titled “Achilles’ heel of the Gorgons,” which he claimed contained