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GUYANA NEEDS MORE GLENN LALLS!

Sep 29, 2010 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

It has been our practice to let the public know about developments in the unfolding conspiracy against Kaieteur News. We have done this in the past. We have informed the nation as to what we learnt about the plans that were being hatched against the newspaper.
We also made predictions about what would have happened. These predictions have been borne out.
We had reported to our readers that there was talk about ways having to be found to “deal with Kaieteur News”.
We received information as to who said these words and we took them seriously and brought it to the attention of our readers. We were not surprised therefore by subsequent developments.
We are again in receipt of information that someone is not pleased with our newspaper. We are not bothered by this. We have faced persecution in the past and we will face it again. We have a job to do and no maligning of our newspapers, or persons connected with it, is going to stop us from doing our job.
We are not also deterred by the cutback in advertisements to our newspaper. We had predicted this would have happened and we had seen the trend of reduced placements. Our publisher had the foresight to take steps to ensure that we would not be dependent on the advertisements from the government to survive. A difficult but necessary decision was taken to raise the price of our newspaper so as to ensure that we would not be affected by any withdrawal of ads, if and when they came.
The withdrawal came and we were prepared for it, thanks to our publisher, Mr. Glenn Lall, who not only saw the machinations but also had the business sense to take steps to protect the newspaper.
Glenn Lall means well for Guyana. This country needs more Glenn Lalls. There are persons who despise him because he will not tolerate wrongdoing in this country. There are persons who feel that they could manipulate him but he has shown that he has character and is nobody’s puppet.
He wants good for this country and he feels strongly that the people of this country deserve better and can enjoy betterment if there is greater accountability and transparency in the ways things are done.
This is why he is prepared to take losses so that Guyana can become a better place.
In this vein he responded to the withdrawal of ads not by moping and crying about it. He was more concerned about the implications of the public not seeing government ads in the daily newspapers than he was about his own revenue base.
He wants to ensure that people know what is going on because when people know what is going on they can keep a lid on excesses.
At the same time, he knows that if things are hidden from the public this can lead to all manner of things happening which may not be good for the country. And so he showed what a great heart he had.
Despite how his newspaper was being maligned and attacked, he said that the interests of the readers are foremost and he decided that he would carry government advertisements free of cost, not as a service to the government, but as a service to the people of Guyana.
Such a thing has never before happened in the history of newpapers. Glenn Lall has created history in the world. But he is not concerned about such labels. He wants to ensure that readers have information on which they can make informed choices because this is what democracy is about.
And this is why despite the latest word that has come to us about what was said, Kaieteur News knows that it has to continue to do its work and deal with the persecutions as they come along.

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