Country Life Settles Defamation Lawsuit With Barbados Politician

Yet another British magazine has agreed to pay damages and legal fees over a false story published in its pages. Country Life, the glossy weekly, has acknowledged that its reference via a song to the suggestion that Mia Amor Mottley, the former deputy prime minister of Barbados, had assaulted someone, was factually incorrect. Ms. Mottley has now withdrawn her defamation suit against the magazine and its parent company, IPC Media. Read more here in a Guardian story. Here’s coverage from Barbados via The Nation Newspaper.