Golding sues Deputy House Speaker Heroy Clarke for defamation
Vanassa McKenzie / Our Today
Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding has moved to file a lawsuit against Deputy House Speaker Heroy Clarke for allegedly making defamatory statements in a WhatsApp group about his wife, Sandra Golding, and the origin of their relationship.
The statements were reportedly made by Clarke in a WhatsApp group consisting of some 300 members.
“My lawyers have been instructed to file a lawsuit against Heroy Clarke for defamation. Justice will be done,” Golding said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Golding’s attorneys at the law firm Hart Muirhead Fatta, in a letter last week to Clarke, said his statements have also caused reputational damage to Golding.
“Your statements have disparaged Mr Golding in his character and reputation as Leader of the Opposition, a former minister in the Government of Jamaica, an attorney-at-law, an investment banker, and a businessman. They have severely injured and damaged him in his credit and business, and have brought him into public scandal, odium, and contempt, thereby causing considerable distress and embarrassment to him. Those statements have also caused reputational damage to Mr Golding,” the firm said.
Clarke was given until Monday, 10 June, to provide a written apology to Golding in a newspaper of island-wide circulation and to confirm in writing not to publish or cause to be published any defamatory statements concerning Golding and to enter into discussions regarding the terms of settlement of Golding’s claims against him for damages for defamation.
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