Jagdeo files $5m libel suit against Byron Mackintosh

Bharrat Jagdeo

Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo has filed a $5m libel suit against Facebook personality Byron Mackintosh, known as “Bryan Max,” who he says has falsely accused him of orchestrating to take his, (Max’s) life.

In his statement of claim, an expletive-laced excerpt from what Jagdeo said was a live video done by Mackintosh on his Facebook page, accuses him, (Jagdeo) of sending people to cut Mackintosh’s brakes.

From the excerpt attributed to the video which Jagdeo said was made by Mackintosh, he (Mackintosh) is reported saying that all he had done was expose the truth about Jagdeo, who responded by sending people to tamper with the brakes of his vehicle.