The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has publicly condemned remarks made by social media personality Mikhail Rodrigues, popularly known as the “Guyanese Critic,” describing them as racially stereotypical and derogatory while concluding that they did not cross the legal threshold for criminal prosecution.

The Commission’s findings follow an investigation into a series of comments made by Rodrigues that came to the attention of its Media Monitoring Unit. Although the ERC determined the remarks were harmful to ethnic relations and contrary to its constitutional mandate, it said they did not amount to racial incitement under Guyanese law and therefore would not be referred to the Guyana Police Force.

“The remarks in question relied on broad ethnic generalizations that demeaned citizens on the basis of their ethnicity, including by disparaging the character and worth of one community, and by drawing divisive and derogatory distinctions within another,” the Commission said in a statement issued Friday.