A single name on a sanctions list, published at the height of Guyana's tabulation crisis, has cost a former government minister G$5 million and an apology he must print himself.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana September 18, 2026 - Calvin G. Brown| It took one line in a newspaper column to do the damage, and six years to undo it.  A 2020 column naming the broadcaster among those who rigged the elections costs its author G$5 million, a public apology and a permanent injunction — while the publisher walks free on reportage

On 17 September 2026, Justice Peter Hugh of the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Guyana ruled that Dr Leslie Ramsammy — former health minister, veteran parliamentarian and columnist — defamed the broadcaster Enrico Woolford by naming him among individuals who were “part of the plot or complicit in rigging” the March 2020 general and regional elections.