CHIEF Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Sugar Company Limited (GUYSUCO), Sasenarine Singh has commenced libel proceedings in the High Court against the National Media and Publishing Company Limited, the printers and publishers of the daily Kaietaur News newspapers.

From the court documents seen by this publication, Singh is suing Kaietaur News for a series of publications between December 16, 2021 and December 28, 2021 which, he claims, was an attack on his reputation and has seriously injured his character, credit and reputation.

Kaietaur News had published three letters: one December 16 titled ‘Issues with current GuySuCo CEO for his friends to deal with honestly’ another on December 25 titled ‘The GuySuCo CEO has no strategic plan’ and one on December 28 titled ‘Who is riding the gravy train at GuySuCo?’

Singh claims that by way of the publications, Kaietaur News meant, understood to mean, or implied that he participated in a fraudulent, secret, and corrupt scheme to procure resources from GuySuCo for and to use for his personal benefits in breach of his duties as CEO.

Further, he claimed that Kaietaur News meant, understood to mean, or implied that he participated in a secret and corrupt scheme to take control of GuySuCo resources for his own personal benefit by using unethical means and being involved in other corrupt practices.

Singh claimed the publications were calculated to cause and did cause him serious public embarrassment, humiliation, ridicule, odium and injury to his reputation, both nationally and internationally, both personally and in his professional capacity.

He is suing for damages in excess of $100,000 for libel contained in the series of articles published by Kaietaur News between December 16, 2021 and December 28, 2021; an injunction restraining the media outlet from publishing defamatory material about him; costs and interest.