In a judgment of the High Court, the Kaieteur News (KN) has been ordered to pay $3.6 million in damages to former executive director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington, who had sued the newspaper for defamation.
In addition, KN has also been ordered to pay court costs in the sum of $450,000 altogether for the four, out of about a dozen actions Brassington brought against it back in 2014. To date, KN has had judgements awarded against it, in favour of Brassington, to the tune of almost $40 million.