Jack makes good on threat to sue the "Gladiator"

Ashworth Jack has sued "the Gladiator" for slander.

The leader of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) made the threat to take legal action when he addressed a political meeting at Fyzabad on Wednesday.

Now in a pre-action protocol letter delivered Friday Jack has given 91.9 FM three days to give "a full, public and unreserved apology and retraction" of the offending broadcast in which "the Gladiator" (Ricardo Welch) claimed that Jack got $15 million to sell out Tobago to the United National Congress (UNC).

TOP is one of the members in an opposition alliance with the UNC that includes the Congress of the People (COP), National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) and the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ).

In his address at the launch of the alliance Wednesday, Jack spoke about the broadcast and announced that he would take legal action against the broadcaster, whom he did not name at the time.

Jack claims that the slander was repeated by Isha Wells, another broadcaster at the station. He is demanding an apology from both of them and an offer of compensation for defamation of character and damage to reputation.