Dear Ms. Shaw,
Providing NV GEBE with the opportunity to respond after you made false, incorrect and even defamatory publications, certainly does not constitute independent and objective journalism. Your actions do not meet the threshold for the requisite duty of care and diligence, imposed by law, for media publications. Please note in this respect that the qualification or adjective “online media blog” for the website of SMN News that you use for the litigious publications, does not derogate to your personal responsibility, and consequently, liability.
The location/country where you and this media house are established furthermore leave unaffected that the tort is committed against, and affects, a corporation established in Sint Maarten. In other words: the consequences play out on Dutch Sint Maarten……
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Jairo Bloem
Attorney at Law
