Former government minister Annette Ferguson has responded to the application filed by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, who is seeking to set aside a $20M default judgment he has been ordered to pay her in a libel action she brought against him.
In her affidavit in reply, Ferguson slammed Jagdeo’s explanation of his lawyer being preoccupied with general elections and the constraints brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, as mere excuses for not complying with the timeline in which he needed to file his defence to her action.
In January of last year, Ferguson filed a $60M lawsuit against Jagdeo—the then Opposition Leader and the Guyana Times newspaper, over what she said were libelous statements made by the two, calculated to damage her character and reputation.