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In defence of Kaieteur News

Nov 09, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
I write in defence of Kaieteur News. In a letter written by Brian Azore (GC Nov. 6) in which he refers to Kaieteur News as, “fast attaining tabloid status…opting for fast and nasty style of reporting”, and went on to give a solitary example from which he made this preposterous accusation.
The dictionary on my iPhone G4 defines the word “sycophant” as a toady, crawler, lackey – a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; it seems to me that this definition suits Mr. Azore perfectly; for he seems to be doing a lousy job at trying to impress someone in the Ministry of Human Services.
Kaieteur News is the largest selling newspaper in Guyana, and has a growing online readership of over 93,500; the others combine don’t even come close.
Its owner and publisher is a man of integrity and grit, and is not afraid of lawsuits and the loss of Government’s advertising revenue to expose cover-ups, widespread corruption, and wasteful spending of taxpayers’ money.
The employees of Kaieteur News are hard-working dedicated professionals, risking their own safety at times to bring the truth to the Guyanese people, writing the type of news articles and investigative reports you will never read in the Government controlled Guyana Chronicle.
Mr. Azore must be naïve to think that the PPP/C Administration would voluntarily investigate itself, or that they have any credibility with the truth.
How long has it been since President Jagdeo promised to pass the Freedom of Information Act?
First it was August, then October, we’re now approaching Christmas, and I doubt there is a real effort to bring this to fruition.
The same empty promises were made of the Broadcast Legislation.
And what about the attempt by senior police officers to cover-up the brutal torture of a child, who’s lower torso was doused with flammable liquid and set alight by police ranks; and we’re still waiting on the Administration to clarify their role with the notorious Roger Khan and the Phantom Squad, and to tell us who killed Ronald Waddell, Donna Herod, Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh and many others.
We need the free press to expose all the corruption that’s ongoing among customer and police officers, and to report on the Administration’s financial irregularities as highlighted by the Auditor General, costing taxpayers of this country billions of dollars; and other irregularities like the multi-million dollar dolphin scandal documents that mysteriously floated away in the floods of 2005; the millions that were stolen from President’s Christmas Fund for Underprivileged Children by some employees of the Office of the President; and the millions of dollars from the Office of the President that ended up in a private account at the Bank of Baroda.
These reports and many, many more are all carried in the free press by hard working journalists. They were not misrepresented, exaggerated, nor sensationalized…Believe it or not; it is a simple case of reporting the truth.
But as Jack Nicholson said in the 1992 movie classic ‘A Few Good Men’, “The truth… You can’t handle the truth”.
This Administration has a problem telling the truth to the Guyanese people; there is no transparency, and the job is left to a vigilant press to hold the Government accountable for the atrocities being committed on its citizens. So Mr. Brian Azore or whoever you are, don’t blame Kaieteur News for being suspicious of whatever the Government says and does, and don’t degrade this medium because they do not confirm with the propaganda being spewed by the Jagdeo Administration on a regular basis, as published in the newspaper no one reads.
You want Kaietuer News to look more like a regular newspaper rater than a tabloid?
I’m sure you’ll see the change when the government you seem to be defending, start being accountable to the people, and its leaders stop being the bunch of dictators that they are.
Harry Gill

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