Engineer Charles Ceres and his wife, Ndibi Schwiers, have secured judgment against the Guyana Times in a libel suit after the newspaper’s attorney failed to submit a defence to their claim in the stipulated time.
This failure prompted attorney Darren Wade, who represents Ceres and Schwiers, to apply for judgment in default of the failure to file the defence in time.
Wade told Stabroek News yesterday that counsel for Guyana Times had filed an application to extend the deadline, but the court found that the threshold could not be met.