BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – THE Editor-in-Chief, on behalf of SKNVibes.com, hereby makes a public apology to Attorney-at-Law Nassibou Butler for a statement made by Denise Stevens within an article.
The article, headlined “Single-parent mother accuses Magistrate of favouritism, sarcasm”, was posted on SKNVibes’ website on Thursday, November 6, 2014 and spoke to Stevens claim of the legal luminary being her child’s father lawyer sometime in the past.
Butler, by mail, contacted SKNVibes last week and categorically stated that the statement was false and degrading to his character and reputation, adding that this media house retracts the article and provide him with a written apology that must be publish on this site.
SKNVibes contacted Stevens, who claimed that the intent was in no way designed to degrade Butler.
“It was not and is still not my intention to degrade Mr. Butler’s character or reputation. My intention was to state the fact that instead of my child’s father paying me $75 weekly as the Court ordered for our son, he chose to do so on a monthly basis. However, with the exception of February, four months in every year have 30 days and seven of them have 31. Therefore, he was only paying me for 336 days and not 365. So, my lawyer, Mr. Hesketh Benjamin, had rebuked him about it and he was of the view that the intention was to rob him.
“My child’s father then told me that he would no longer pay the maintenance through my lawyer but through his. A few months after, he told me that he would stop doing so because his lawyer also wanted him to pay the difference and he was not in agreement. He is not a dunce, but under the pretext that both lawyers wanted to rob him, he decided to deliver $300 to me at the end of every month, which means that at the end of each year he would still be owing me four weeks maintenance fee.”
This media house had however failed to validate Stevens’ original statement but has since omitted certain aspects of the article, and management humbly apologises to Mr. Nassibou Butler for any inconvenience or embarrassment caused by its publication.
