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ADAM FORMING NEWSPAPER

Jun 26, 2009 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Any problems Adam Harris has are about to end. He will soon become a rich man and all his worries and fears about the future will soon be a thing of the past.
Adam is opening his own newspaper.
Seriously! It will be called Newsday Guyana. An online version of the newspaper is under construction and will be available soon. A hardcopy of his newspaper will soon hit the streets. It will be printed by a popular printing establishment and offered for sale at next to nothing.
Adam is not worried about sales. He does not need circulation. He has already calculated that he will make some money from this venture since he will, as a new daily newspaper, be entitled to government ads and this alone will provide a few million dollars each week.

Therefore he has no reason to worry about whether his newspaper will sell, or if, like is happening with another daily newspaper, it has to be distributed to schoolchildren because no one is buying it.
Adam will get government ads. These ads no longer have anything to do with circulation and therefore even if only a single paper sells, Adam knows that the government will advertise and once the government advertises, other ads from the private sector will come flooding in.

I have a little surprise, however, for Adam. It is not he alone that will be establishing a newspaper. Peeping Tom is also going into the publishing business. I, too, am starting a newspaper since I know that with the government ads I will not have to worry about sales and the government will advertise, regardless of the circulation since this is what they are doing with another newspaper.
I also have something else up my sleeve. I plan to also invite the government to place all their printing needs with me, from letterheads to their booklets, I am open for business.
And guess what, all of this will be done at the same printers where Adam will be printing his Newsday Guyana. Boy, with the number of orders that the government will place, I am going to be a rich man overnight.

And then I am going to apply for a government contract to supply the public hospitals with drugs and medical supplies. I am sure that I too will get a Cabinet waiver of Tender Board procedures.
I understand that the Minister of Health has indicated that there is no hanky panky involved in this process.
I believe the Minister of Health. I take him at his word. He is a good man. He is an honest man. He works hard to educate his children and provide for his family. I trust him and I believe him when he speaks. He is a decent man. A man of integrity. Just like our President. They have a lot in common.
I am worried, though, about this stance the Health Minister is taking as regards the Demerara Tobacco Company. It seems a lot of eyes were opened when it was revealed that a small company, one which I would assume has less than fifty workers, raked up a profit last year of close to one billion dollars, something that even the large conglomerates employing hundreds of workers have not been able to make; something that the top banks in Guyana have not achieved.

Yet a small importing company, which has sub-contracted its distribution services, has been able to rake in close to one billion dollars in profits by selling cigarettes.
I think that is a wonderful example of capitalist success. And I am surprised that the Minister of Health is taking it so hard to the extent that he is saying that the profits are coming from the poor people.
Well, I am glad he has said so, just as how he is concerned about the huge profits that are being made from the sale of cigarettes which he reminds us is not good for your health.
He should also speak up against the empire that is being formed on the backs of taxpayers’ funds and on the sale and disposal of public properties.
If making a billion dollars in a small economy by selling cigarettes is wrong, so too is the making of billions of dollars through secret deals.

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