The Chairman’s Denial: Paul Cheong’s Own LinkedIn Contradicts His Sworn Claim on L’Heureuse

The Chairman’s Denial: Paul Cheong’s Own LinkedIn Contradicts His Sworn Claim on L’Heureuse

OPINION BY: Staff Writer –August 2026

GuySuCo CEO sues Opposition Leader for defamation over a road-contract conflict-of-interest claim — while his own professional profile lists him as Chairman of the very company he says he has no role in

Dr. Paul Cheong, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), has filed suit in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Demerara, against Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed, seeking upward of $10 million in damages and an injunction against further publication over a Facebook video posted on August 11, 2026. In his Statement of Claim, Cheong swears he is “not the owner of L’Heureuse Construction Services or L’Heureuse Construction Services Inc.” and that he holds “no ownership, management or decision-making role” in the company. This publications  own review of the public record complicates that sworn position.

THE ALLEGATION THAT TRIGGERED THE SUIT

Mohamed’s video linked Cheong to L’Heureuse in connection with a $6.8 billion bid submitted under a $121 billion, seventeen-lot national road tender — the Parika-to-Versailles four-lane highway among them — and questioned the propriety of a sitting state-corporation chief executive holding an interest in a company competing for government road works.

L’Heureuse itself issued a public statement on August 11 denying that Cheong holds any ownership, management, or decision-making role in the company, and noting it was incorporated on August 11, 2017. Cheong’s subsequent Statement of Claim, filed August 17, tracks that denial closely: he says he has never bid on or been awarded a government road contract.

WHAT THE COMPANY’S OWN DIRECTORS SAY ABOUT THEMSELVES

This publication reviewed the LinkedIn profiles maintained by Paul Cheong and by Marvin Cheong, who is publicly listed as an officer of L’Heureuse.

Both are self-authored, current professional profiles — not third-party claims, and not statements attributed to Mohamed or to this news outlet .

Paul (Christopher) Cheong’s LinkedIn headline reads: “Chariman at Lheureuse Construction and Services Inc.” [sic]. It is listed as his current position, above a separate line identifying him with the Private Sector Commission of Guyana.

Marvin Cheong’s LinkedIn headline reads: “Managing director at L’Heureuse Construction and Services Inc.” — also listed as a current position, under the “Experience” heading with the title “Managing director.”

Chairman and Managing Director are governance and management titles, by definition — the very categories Paul Cheong’s sworn claim disavows.

Chairman and Managing Director are, on their face, management and governance titles. That places Paul Cheong’s own self-description in direct tension with the specific language of his Statement of Claim — not with the broader, separately unresolved question of who owns L’Heureuse’s shares, but narrowly with his sworn assertion that he has “no ownership, management or decision-making role” in the company.

WHAT THIS EVIDENCE DOES AND DOES NOT ESTABLISH

This publication draws a firm line here. A LinkedIn title is not a shareholder register, and it is not proof of who actually controls or benefits from L’Heureuse Construction and Services Inc. The claim, circulating separately, that Marvin Cheong — listed as the company’s owner of record — is fronting for his father is a distinct allegation this newsroom  has not independently verified through company registry filings, and it is treated here as such: unverified. What is verified, because it is self-published and current, is that both Paul and Marvin Cheong publicly describe themselves as holding management roles at the same company at the same time that Paul Cheong has sworn in a Statement of Claim that he holds no such role.

The company’s public documented work includes the roundabout and dual carriageway on the Schoonord-to-Crane four-lane highway, running north from the roundabout to within roughly ten metres of the A Line concrete bridge. That segment’s defects-liability period expired August 29, 2024, and the company has maintained the pavement remains in good condition — a claim that bears directly on Mohamed’s assertion, made in the video that prompted the suit, that the road is already deteriorating.

WHY IT MATTERS

Guyana’s state corporations sit at the centre of the country’s oil-era procurement boom, and the credibility of their leadership rests on a clean separation between public office and private contracting interest. A defamation suit is Cheong’s legal right, and Mohamed will have to substantiate his claims before a court under the ordinary rules of evidence. But when a plaintiff’s own sworn pleading and his own public professional profile point in different directions on the narrow question of what role he holds in the company at issue, that contradiction belongs in the public record alongside the litigation — regardless of how the underlying ownership dispute is ultimately resolved.

This newsroom  will continue to track the proceedings, any response Cheong’s attorneys file addressing the LinkedIn discrepancy, and any registry documentation that speaks to the actual ownership structure of L’Heureuse Construction and Services Inc.

— The Board