{"id":23051,"date":"2024-09-18T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=23051"},"modified":"2024-09-18T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:16:20","slug":"cathy-hughes-admits-to-fabricating-claims-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-jagdeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/cathy-hughes-admits-to-fabricating-claims-in-defamation-lawsuit-against-jagdeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy Hughes Admits to Fabricating Claims in Defamation Lawsuit Against Jagdeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In the ongoing defamation case initiated by former APNU+AFC minister Cathy Hughes against PPP General Secretary Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Hughes has admitted that her claim regarding Jagdeo offering Venezuela a &#8220;channel&#8221; to resolve the border dispute was fabricated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She acknowledged that this claim was not based on any action taken by Jagdeo during his time as president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a recent press conference, Jagdeo expressed his approval that the case had gone to court, revealing how it exposed dishonesty within opposition ranks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that Hughes&#8217; allegations were made without evidence and involved events that took place before he became president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Jagdeo highlighted that the opposition attempted to misuse evidence to support their case, taking things out of context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further clarified that while discussions had occurred about potential maritime solutions, such ideas were not proposed or endorsed by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit stems from a period of increased tension between Guyana and Venezuela, during which Jagdeo criticized opposition figures for spreading misinformation and attempting to disrupt national unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ongoing defamation case initiated by former APNU+AFC minister Cathy Hughes against PPP General Secretary Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, Hughes has admitted that her claim regarding Jagdeo offering Venezuela a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23057,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23051\/revisions\/23057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}