-awarded $700,000
The state-owned GNNL, publishers of the Guyana Chronicle, has been ordered to pay $700,000 in damages to former Mayor of Georgetown, Ubraj Narine along with $200,000 in costs.
The decision was handed down by Justice Nicola Pierre on October 22nd 2024 following a one-day trial on August 28th 2024.
Narine had sued the Chronicle over an August 29, 2023 report in which former Mayor Patricia Chase-Green was reported as having made derogatory remarks about him. It was revealed during the court proceedings that Chase-Green’s remarks had been actually directed at another Narine, the Solid Waste Director Walter Narine. The Chronicle had however reported that the remarks pertained to the former mayor, Narine.
