Sigma Engineers L.T.D. Inc. has threatened legal proceedings against Leader of the Opposition Azruddin Mohamed over statements made about the company in a video published on August 17, 2026.
In a pre-action letter issued by attorney-at-Law Sase Gunraj of Gunraj & Co., the company rejected allegations concerning its incorporation, government contracts, employment practices and work on several Guyana Water Inc. projects as “false and defamatory.”
The company maintains that contrary to claims made in the video, it has received only one contract since its incorporation in Guyana in 2022 – a 2026 contract for the rehabilitation of GWI’s Shelter Belt – and says work on that project has commenced and remains ongoing.
Through its attorneys, Sigma is demanding that Mohamed cease repeating the allegations, permanently remove the publication, provide a written undertaking against republication and issue a full retraction and apology with substantially the same prominence and audience as the original publication. The company is also seeking compensation and legal costs, warning that failure to comply will result in legal proceedings without further notice.
The full letter, dated August 17, 2026, is published below:
Proposed Legal Proceedings
17th August, 2026
Azruddin Mohamed
19 Houston Gardens
Georgetown
Guyana.
Dear Sir,
Re: Proposed Legal Proceedings
We act on behalf of Sigma Engineers L.T.D. Inc., a company duly registered in the Co-operative Republic of Guyana with its registered place of business at 225 F New Market Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown, Guyana.
This letter is sent as a pre-action protocol and is intended to give you an opportunity to address and resolve this matter without the necessity of proceedings. The Courts of Guyana expect parties to have regard to applicable pre-action protocols relevant to costs and damages.
1. THE PUBLICATION
On or about 17th August, 2026, you published/posted/broadcast and spoke the following words concerning our client:
i. “How does a newly incorporated company move from being a newly registered entity to receiving billions of dollars in government contracts in five working days? Sigma Engineers was registered on October 6, 2022. Within days, three government contracts, totalling approximately $3,697,000,000, were awarded.”
ii. “Taamjeed Rahmaan the Bangladeshi-Canadian, is listed in multiple capacities within Sigma…Taamjeed subsequently brought Bangladeshi nationals to Guyana because they wanted cheap labour to execute their many billion-dollar contracts.”
iii. “Sigma received a contract for works at an existing facility at Caledonia, valued at $687 million. It received another contract for a new water treatment plant at Cummings Lodge, valued at $1,304,000,000. It also received a contract for a water treatment facility at Bachelor’s Adventure, valued at $1,647,000,000.”
iv. “Remember the two children who drowned on Phagwah Day? 10-Year-old Jadon De Courte and his eight-year-old sister Tiana lost their lives on March 3rd, 2026. The children drowned because the GWI plant. Behind the GWI plant, the facility was backwashed by the water treatment system at Bachelor’s Adventure, being built by Sigma.”
v. “In February, 2024, Sigma received another $254 million for additional works at the Bachelor’s Adventure facility; their greed knows no bounds. Then on November 29, 2024, Sigma received a $3,569,000,000 contract for the Hope Water Treatment Facility. On October 28, 2024, two more contracts for water treatment plants, one at Wakenaam and one at Leguan, totalled $1,468,000,000, and the numbers keep climbing.”
vi. “Information provided to us from within GWI is that work on the shelter belt rehab has not commenced to date.”
vii. “On May 20, 2025, a contract for four Wells, Melanie, Friendship, Westminster, and GWI HQ was awarded for $411 million, and the pattern continued. On May 7, 2026, Sigma received $153 million contract to drill a well at Port Mourant. On that same date, another well drilling contract at Garden of Eden was awarded for $129 million. Now, on May 20, 2026, $124 million contract was awarded a well for Shirley Field Ridley. On the same date another $124 million contract was awarded for a well in Better Hope East Coast. Another well-drilling contract followed at Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara.”
The publication was made on 17th August, 2026, at approximately 6:00 a.m. on a Facebook page under the name “Team Mohamed’s”, which has over 537,000 followers. At the time of preparation of this letter, the said video publication had received a wide viewership on the platform, with over 384,000 views, 8,200 reactions, 2,100 shares and 1,600 comments.
A recording of the publication is retained and will be relied upon if proceedings become necessary.
2. REFERENCE TO OUR CLIENT
The words clearly refer to our client because the name was mentioned repeatedly, and a copy its Certificate of Incorporation and other incorporation documents were prominently displayed during the said publication.
3. DEFAMATORY MEANING
The words complained of, in their natural and ordinary meaning conveyed, were understood to convey, among other things, that:
i. Our client was established only shortly before receiving a Government contract;
ii. The circumstances surrounding its incorporation and award of contracts were improper and irregular;
iii. There was an improper association between our client and Mr. Mohamed Aqtar Ali, thereby casting doubt upon the legitimacy of our client and its operation;
iv. Our client is engaged in unacceptable employment practices;
v. Our client engaged in negligent conduct which has resulted in the death of 2 (two) children; and
vi. Our client has benefitted from unfair and preferential treatment in the competitive bidding process.
Those allegations are false and defamatory. In particular, the publication falsely presents our client as corrupt and unprofessional, thereby seriously impugning our client’s professional reputation.
The words convey factual imputations which tend to lower our client in the estimation of right-thinking members of society and adversely affect our client’s professional and/or business reputation.
4. FALSITY
The allegations are wholly false. Our client has been awarded a singular contract since its incorporation in 2022. The contract was awarded in 2026 for the rehabilitation of the Shelter Belt of the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI). Work has commenced and continues actively at the present time.
Our client was never awarded the plethora of other contracts as alleged by you in the said publication.
As a consequence, you had no proper basis for making the allegations and, notwithstanding the serious nature of the allegations, you failed to take reasonable steps to verify their truth before publishing them.
5. PUBLICATION AND REPUBLICATION
To the extent that you have repeated or republished the allegations, each such publication is relied upon.
You are required to identify and preserve all records relating to the publication, including electronic messages, emails, social-media posts, recordings, drafts, correspondence and communications with persons concerning our client.
6. SERIOUSNESS OF THE PUBLICATION AND DAMAGE
The allegations are particularly serious because they concern our client’s integrity, professional competence and business dealings.
The publication has caused and/or is likely to cause substantial injury to its reputation in the way of its trade and business, its goodwill and may hamper its ability to recruit staff. Further, it leads people of ordinary sense to the opinion that it conducts its business in a dishonest, improper, inefficient, and negligent manner.
Our Client reserves the right to rely upon evidence of the actual consequences of the publication in support of a claim for damages.
7. NOTICE OF CLAIM
Our client accordingly holds you liable for defamation and intends, if necessary, to commence proceedings against you in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Guyana.
Our client will seek such relief as the Court considers appropriate, including:
a. damages for defamation;
b. aggravated damages, where justified by the circumstances;
c. exemplary damages, where legally available and appropriate;
d. an injunction restraining further publication or republication of the defamatory allegations;
e. interest;
f. the costs of the proceedings; and
g. such further or other relief as the Court considers just.
8. REQUIRED REMEDIAL ACTION
In the circumstances, we are instructed to demand, as we hereby do the following:
a. immediately cease and desist from publishing or repeating the allegations complained of;
b. remove and permanently delete the defamatory publication(s), including any copies within your control;
c. provide a written undertaking that you will not repeat or republish the allegations, or substantially similar allegations, concerning our client;
d. provide a full and unequivocal written retraction and apology in terms to be agreed with our client’s attorneys;
e. publish the retraction and apology with substantially the same prominence and to substantially the same audience as the original publication;
f. identify all persons to whom you have communicated or republished the allegations, insofar as reasonably ascertainable;
g. provide a written undertaking to preserve all documents and electronic evidence relating to the publications; and
h. pay compensation to our client in the sum to be agreed, together with our client’s reasonable legal costs incurred to date.
In the unlikely event of your failure to comply, legal proceedings will be initiated without further notice to you. Our client will seek the full relief available to it, together with interest and costs.
Nothing in this correspondence constitutes a waiver of any of our client’s rights or remedies, all of which are expressly reserved.
All for your information and urgent attention.
Yours faithfully,
SASE R. GUNRAJ
Attorney-at-Law
GUNRAJ & CO.