GPL head threatens defamation suit against local online news agency

Team Leader of the Executive Management Committee (EMC) of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) Kesh Nandlall has threatened to file legal action against online media entity Guyana Standard over what he terms as defamatory statements about him. Nandlall is seeking an apology from the media entity and a retraction of the defamatory publications.
In a letter sent to the editor of Guyana Standard, Attorney-at-Law Rajendra Jaigobin said that the article – “Govt mum on Method4 affairs because it was ‘bitten by its own’ – source, which was published on August 6, 2025 – sought to 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; and that his client unlawfully and corruptly aided and abetted the company to be awarded a US$7 million contract to offer certain services to GPL.
The law also noted that several questions was posed to the Vice President (VP) of Guyana and General Secretary (GS) of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Bharrat Jagdeo on this matter at a Press Conference on August 7.
“You made reference to the aforementioned offensive article published by Guyana Standard and posed a number of questions to the Vice President, seeking to relentlessly implicate my client in an alleged corrupt transaction between the said Method4 Engineering and Guyana Power and Light Inc. In fact, in this said exchange with the Vice President, one of the questions which you posed was whether the Government had information linking ‘that company and Kesh Nandiall’,” the lawyer outlined. Through the publications and the questions posed, Attorney Jaigobin said that Guyana Standards conveyed expressly and by innuendo, that his client is corrupt, was engaged in a corrupt transaction, breached his fiduciary duties to GPL, is dishonest; is unfit to hold the Office which he holds, is unfit to function in his profession of finance and accounting, and has committed several criminal offences.
Citing that Nandlall is a Chartered Certified Public Accountant in Canada and has served in many executive positions at several Fortune 500 companies and multinational corporations for approximately 15 years in Canada, the lawyer said the publications are clearly defamatory of his 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.
He added Nandlall’s employment as well as the trust and confidence reposed in him by the Government of Guyana is also jeopardised. “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 (USA).”
“In the circumstances, I hereby demand that, within 72-hours of receipt of this letter, you issue a full and unequivocal apology to my client and his family, as well as a retraction of the offensive publications, wheresoever published, and that you remove same from all platforms where published. This apology must be given equal, if not greater prominence, than that which the offensive publications enjoyed and upon all platforms where the offensive publications were circulated,” Attorney Jaigobin detailed in the letter.
The lawyer cautioned that failure to comply with this request will result in his client instituting legal proceedings.