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KAIETEUR NEWS IS HERE TO STAY

Sep 02, 2009 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

To all those who called to express their support and concern for this newspaper, we express our gratitude. We are touched by the outpouring of support and especially from those who called from overseas.
To all of you we say thanks and assure you that Kaieteur News is not going anywhere. This newspaper is not going to allow anyone to force us into closure.
We have been through harder and leaner times. We survived ten years without ads. We did not go and beg anyone because we knew there would have been conditions attached. We are not into making deals where the news is concerned.
We will not subject our editors to tailoring the news to appease anyone. We are interested in bringing the news as accurate as we can to you the people. We shall not compromise on the truth and we shall not be deterred in reporting on matters simply because of financial considerations.
Kaieteur News can look at the aggressor in the face. We have nothing to be ashamed of. We have done nothing wrong; we are only doing our job which unfortunately has attracted the ire of some.
We know the hammer is coming. We predicted it a long time ago and we are seeing it as it approaches. We are not bothered. We are confident in the people of this country and the thousands in the Diaspora who read our newspaper. We know that if we call on them for their support, it will be given unconditionally.
We are confident that if needs be and we ask the people of this country to pay more for our newspaper to offset any withdrawal of State ads that the people of this country will not only be willing to pay a $20 more per copy. They will pay a $100 more per copy.
This is how much the people of this country love this newspaper. And this is reflected in the amount of newspapers we are selling. To tell you the truth since the threats began we have been doing better.
Of course we expect reprisals. We are not worried. This newspaper is not about profits. It is not about making money. It is about making a difference in this country. We want to see betterment come to Guyana and we are confident that so long as we continue in the same vein that betterment will come because we are exposing all the wrong things that are happening and we are pushing for the right things.
This has always been what this newspaper is about. If we were about money, we would have closed shop years ago. But we did not. We want to see Guyana become a better place and this is why hammer or no hammer we are not going to tone down our exposes of what is taking place in Guyana. No amount of pressure is going to force this newspaper to compromise on its principles.
We are not going to become the scapegoat for financial transfers to another newspaper, the one with the circulation of 100,000 daily… oops … sorry, I mean 1,000 copies daily. We are not worried therefore about the threats. Of course, we are monitoring the situation closely and shall keep the public informed but one thing is certain, we are here to stay.
If in the face of the public broadsides against this newspaper, the Guyana Press Association, the Guyana Human Rights Association and the political parties remain silent, there is not much we can do. We will not go around on bended knees asking for support. We have a job to do in producing this newspaper each day and we will concentrate on the job at hand.
Once again we express our thanks those who have been calling and emailing with their messages of support.

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