AG repudiates ‘fake’ email

Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams SC yesterday denied that he was the author of an email in circulation about the next general elections and the judiciary among other things. “The email in circulation is not mine that is, Non est factum. Don’t use me to change conversations, I can make my own news,” Williams took to his social media Facebook page saying. The Attorney General would issue a press release later in the day which again quoted his social media post.

The release stated that Williams “has rejected out of hand the fake email being circulated whilst he was in Cabinet, purporting to have been authored by him.” The email in question was sent to the press by an Andron Pires using the email nflx20@gmail.com and states that it was a screen capture of the Attorney General’s personal email. The nfx20@gmail.com user says that the mail was sent to several of William’s PNC colleagues and lists strategies to ensure that the APNU+AFC is reelected in 2020. “The REEC was presented with poll findings and other statistics by Max, who posited that it may help us fashion our initiatives to achieve maximum results.

The proposed measures are as follows: Temporarily reverse some of the Budget 2017 measures and relax the curfew as we get closer to elections- REEC agreed that the Guyanese population has short termed memory. Host a series of entertainment shows…,” the email reads.

brushes with the law. For her part, Prosecutor Tuanna Hardy asked the judge to impose a sentence which would reflect the gravity of the convict’s act.

attack, while the other is hospitalised. According to sources at the prison, Ramnarine Jagmohan, 31, a farmer, of Belvedere Squatting Area, and Neshan Jagmohan, 27, a cane harvester of Hampshire Squatting Area, who were both remanded on a murder charge, attended court yesterday and were returning to their living units, when three men attacked them with improvised weapons.