Businessman moves ahead with $200M lawsuit against Harris, Guyana Chronicle

Less than a week after prominent businessman Tamesh Jagmohan of El Dorado Mining threatened to sue the Guyana Chronicle and one of its columnists, Adam Harris for publishing what he described as an erroneous accusation against himself, he is moving ahead with a $200 million lawsuit.

In a column titled “PPP financier hosted the diplomatic mission on Election Day”, published on May 3, Harris made several allegations about the businessman.
Attorney-at-Law Glenn Hanoman, who is representing the businessman, has since dispatched a letter to Harris and the Guyana Chronicle, refuting the claims.
According to Jagmohan, Harris’ column is a “manifesto of mistruths” and publishing it caused immense damage to his reputation and distress to him and his family. Jagmohan alleged that Harris, a veteran media professional, made no attempt to fact check his claims and that the column “falls far below the standards of an experienced columnist in a newspaper owned and funded by the State.”
As such, Jagmohan demanded that the offending column be immediately retracted from the newspaper’s website as well as online archive. In addition, he demanded that any links or posts to the column be deleted from the newspaper’s social media pages.
However, Guyana Times understands that the businessman and Harris had a confrontation at the CID Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown on Tuesday where Harris retracted the allegations contained in the column and apologised.
Nevertheless, despite him apologising, the article was not retracted and as such, the businessman is pursuing legal action.