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Visa revocation story was April Fools’ hoax

Apr 02, 2015 News

An article appearing on page seven in the Wednesday Edition headlined “US revokes four Gov’t officials’ visas –in major money laundering, bribery probe” was merely an April Fools’ joke.
Yesterday, the management said that there were signposts to the article being a hoax. It not only alluded to this publication being aware of the development on February 29 (a date that did not occur this year since this is not a leap year) but it also asked that readers turn to page 38 for a continuation. Yesterday’s edition consisted of 32 pages.
The article created quite a stir among readers, many of whom telephoned the Saffon Street, Georgetown, office, to inquire about the continuation of the story as some were not able to easily decipher its intent.
Among those expressing concern about the article was the United States Embassy which, after becoming aware of the article issued a statement demanding a retraction of the article.  Prior to the issuance of the statement, Embassy officials had contacted Kaieteur News’ Editor In Chief, Adam Harris, who affirmed that the article was in fact a hoax.
The Embassy in its statement titled “Kaieteur News Admits Article was April Fools ‘Joke’,” asserted that the article was “purely a work of fiction.”
It went on to make clear that “the US Embassy has not cancelled any visas of high-ranking Government officials nor is the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in country questioning individuals as the article states.”
The US Embassy in criticizing the hoax said that “Kaieteur News exercised poor judgment in printing this article under the auspices of an April Fools’ joke.” It called for “an immediate retraction of the article by Kaieteur News in both the online and print versions of their newspaper.”
Kaieteur News issues an unqualified apology for any harm or confusion the article might have caused.
“I don’t agree that we exercised poor judgment,” asserted Glenn Lall, Publisher of Kaieteur News. He said that while the US Embassy was swift to respond to “our joke” it has not to date condemned assertions made by former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, at the People’s Progressive Party’s Kitty rally that “US visas will be hard to get if the APNU+AFC is elected to office.”

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