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Defamation
NEW YORK, USA — With today’s deadline for an apology from him breathing down his neck, the Information Minister Robert Nesta Morgan took to the airwaves yesterday to head off a threatened defamation suit from an aggrieved Jamaican here.
Morgan’s accuser is former Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) special agent Jamaican American attorney Wilfred Rattigan who alleged that the Jamaican minister had suggested on an online programme
Mek Wi Talk, hosted by social media platform CHOPPSMEDIA, that he was dishonourably discharged from the FBI and had never served in Jamaica as claimed.
Morgan was given until today by Rattigan’s lawyer, Isat Buchanan, to withdraw his comments and apologise, failing which he would face his client in the Supreme Court of Jamaica.
Speaking on the same programme Wednesday, Morgan said:
“I have no aversion in withdrawing the comments made, as I wish to make it very clear, that there was no intention to defame Mr Rattigan. I apologise to him and his family and sincerely withdraw any comment Mr Rattigan deemed or thought was defamatory.”
Morgan’s accuser is former Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) special agent Jamaican American attorney Wilfred Rattigan who alleged that the Jamaican minister had suggested on an online programme
Mek Wi Talk, hosted by social media platform CHOPPSMEDIA, that he was dishonourably discharged from the FBI and had never served in Jamaica as claimed.
Morgan was given until today by Rattigan’s lawyer, Isat Buchanan, to withdraw his comments and apologise, failing which he would face his client in the Supreme Court of Jamaica.
Speaking on the same programme Wednesday, Morgan said:
“I have no aversion in withdrawing the comments made, as I wish to make it very clear, that there was no intention to defame Mr Rattigan. I apologise to him and his family and sincerely withdraw any comment Mr Rattigan deemed or thought was defamatory.”
