Port Mourant overseer pleads not guilty to assaulting reporter

Andrew Carmichael

The Overseer of the Port Mourant Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge that she assaulted a reporter attached to Inews, the Guyana Times Newspaper and TVG News.

The charge read against Overseer Budmattie Ramnarine at the Whim Magistrate’s Court stated that on August 15, 2016, she unlawfully assaulted Andrew Carmichael, causing actual bodily harm.