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President takes another swipe at the media

Sep 02, 2010 News

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday took another swipe at the media, saying writers in some sections want to snatch away the future of Guyana.
He said some sections of the media have an obsession with morbidity, they are just “negative.” He referred to a small group of people – “5/6 of them” – who are constantly trying to create division.
“It’s a small group of people. Many of them have lived their lives already; old people. They want to destroy, you know, because they didn’t have.
They have lived their lives, many of them so engrossed in bitterness, that they want to snatch away the future from all of you and from this country. We shouldn’t allow that to happen,” he told students who recently completed scholarships. He was speaking at the “graduation” exercise of the students. Jagdeo said he has found that ordinary people are not listening, however.
“I find more and more people are doing this, particularly ordinary people, going about their stuff, you know, trying to get more furniture from Courts, paying for the furniture, or getting that house lot and trying to accumulate the little bit more money to build their houses,” he said.
The President has repeatedly been critical of the media and particularly newspaper columnists.
In May, Jagdeo used his speech at a ceremony his Ministers and friends organised to fete him on winning the UN’s highest environmental honour, to take a similar a swipe at newspaper writers.
He condemned newspaper columnists who have been critical of the government, labeling them bitter old people.
“We must not give up our country and its future to the few in our midst who are negative about every single thing on earth. They are always negative and many of them, frankly speaking, are very old people.
“There are about five of them you see recurring in the newspapers. Five of them, very old people, who have lived their lives very bitter. The future doesn’t belong to them…,” Jagdeo declared.

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