Last Updated on Saturday, 9 August 2025, 0:25 by Writer
The Team Leader of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Kesh Nandlall is threatening to sue the publisher of an online news entity if she does not remove what he says is a defamatory article concerning the now aborted hiring of the Canadian company, Method4, to supervise the expansion of the power company’s transmission and distribution network.
Attorney-at-Law Rajendra Jaigobin, in a letter to Guyana Standard’s owner and editor, Abena Rockliffe, gave her a 72-hour ultimatum to pull down the offending news story from all platforms and issue an apology prominently on all platforms to Mr Nandlall.
“Should you fail to comply with this request, my client shall institute legal proceedings against you forthwith and your failure to comply with this request will be used to aggravate the damages sought,” the lawyer said on Friday.
Mr Jaigobin told Ms Rockliffe that her article, without naming Mr Nandlall, sought to communicate, and did communicate, to the public, by way of innuendo and otherwise, that his client was involved in an incestuous, corrupt scheme with a company trading under the name Method4 Engineering. The lawyer also referred to a question posed by Ms Rockliffe to People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary and 2nd Vice President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo in which his name was called.
“They have also jeopardised his employment and affected the trust and confidence reposed in him by the Government of Guyana,” the lawyer states.
The lawyer said Mr Nandlall is a Canadian qualified chartered accountant and member of the United Kingdom Association of Chartered Accountants, served in executive positions in several Fortune 500 companies and multinational corporations for approximately 15 years in Canada, one of his children is enrolled as a medical student in the United States and his wife is employed as the Director of Finance of a large company in Ontario, Canada.
“The aforesaid publications are clearly defamatory of my client and have caused significant harm and damage to his professional standing and reputation and have lowered his status in the estimation of right-thinking members of society,” Mr Nandlall’s lawyer said in his letter to Ms Rockliffe.
The lawyer said the “cumulative intent of your aforesaid publications and your questions” posed to Mr Jagdeo was to convey and did convey, expressly and by innuendo, that his client was corrupt, engaged in a corrupt transaction, breached his fiduciary duties to the Guyana Power and Light Inc, unfit to hold the Office which he holds, unfit to function in his profession of finance and accounting, and has committed several criminal offences.
“The aforesaid publications have also caused tremendous trauma, pain, anguish, public embarrassment and humiliation to my client and his family, including, his wife, personally and professionally, and his daughter, among her peers at Medical School in New Jersey, United States of America,” Mr Jaigobin said.
The National Procurement and Tender Administration nullified the award of the contract to Method4 and used its powers under the Procurement Act to recommend that the Dominican Republic-based InterEnergy be awarded the contract for US$650,000 per month.
The government’s explanation continues to be that InterEnergy was more experienced and cheaper.
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