The surveillance tape will tell the story

Dec 05, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I will not comment on the incident with Mr. Eddie Boyer until the tape from the surveillance camera is secured by the police. My understanding is that the police have made a request for it and Mr. Boyer has agreed. I hope that the delivery has already taken place. I hope the camera caught me from the time I entered the store to the time I left with Mr. Boyer walking behind me onto the road.
I would like to think that the police know they also have to take possession of the recording of the security cameras outside of the compound of National Hardware because I was followed onto the façade of the compound by Mr. Boyer.
The tape will reveal who did what to whom. The camera of course would show how many persons witnessed the incident. It is unfortunate that Mr. Boyer did not come out of the building to meet with Mr. Glenn Lall and senior reporter, Dale Andrews. Had he done so, there would not have been any published story about an assault on me. Mr. Boyer would have shown Mr. Lall the tape. I would have been proven a liar. I doubt Mr. Lall would have kept that exposure from his editors and senior staff.
There would have been no front page coverage of the incident and the matter would have had an instantaneous demise. As it turned out, Messrs. Lall and Andrews waited for fifteen minutes for Mr. Boyer to come out despite being informed by his staff that Mr. Lall was there to see him. I would leave it to Mr. Boyer to explain to the Guyanese people why there and then, he chose not prove me a dishonest person.
This article is not about the assault saga only. It is also about the statement made by Mr. Boyer about Kaieteur News’s refusal to accept his advertisements that triggered the confrontation between me and him. It is about the messy and comical politics of some people.
We start with Dr. Randy Persaud. He submitted a letter to the editor of the Stabroek News requesting the use of the newspaper to get a message across to the Guyana Diaspora.
Why the Stabroek News and not the Chronicle and Guyana Times? Moral obligation to the state should have led Persaud to the doorsteps of the Chronicle and Times.
The Head of State has relentlessly denounced the two independent dailies as media houses with an agenda to demonise his government. It is for this reason, Persaud as his advisor, should have shown moral obligation and stayed clear of Stabroek News.
Strangely, Persaud’s missive wasn’t featured in the Chronicle and Times. When you think of Mr. “Kit” Nascimento’s eulogy of the Bobby Ramroop newspaper as the New York Times of Guyana, then Persaud did an injustice to Guyana Times.
Next, there is Dr. Prem Misir. For months, Misir took his Sunday Chronicle column and made it into a Sunday letter in the Kaieteur News. I opined in two of my columns that this was unheard of in the newspaper business. Why would a columnist reduce his commentary to the level of sending his pieces to be printed as letters in another newspaper? Obviously he was insulting both President Jagdeo and the Chronicle. But more importantly, why was it occurring only in the Sunday edition of KN?
This couldn’t be random. It appears that Misir must have requested the Sunday edition as his choice. Finally, what was so special about the Kaieteur News that Misir reduced the status of his column to a mere letter?
The special thing about Kaieteur News that Misir and Eddie Boyer discovered is that it is the largest selling newspaper and the one mostly read on the internet, therefore it is wiser to put your stuff in it.
We come now to Eddie Boyer. Mr. Boyer came up to me in the store bitterly complaining that Mr. Lall is refusing to take his advertisements. Mr. Boyer was among the invitees at a dinner hosted by the business community and heard President Jagdeo in his address advocate a boycott of this newspaper.
After lambasting the nature of KN, Mr. Jagdeo went on to castigate the business community with words to the effect that if they continue to advertise in the paper, then they are keeping the paper in existence.
Mr. Boyer is a very close friend of Mr. Jagdeo. Where is his moral obligation to the President?
So Mr. Boyer ended up picking a fight with me over the refusal of a newspaper to carry his advertisements; the very newspaper his friend wants to get rid of. Funny friends they are!

Latest News

The surveillance tape will tell the story

Related

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show | December, 2nd, 2024

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Alarm in West Indies over radical two-division plan for Test cricket

After 18 years hiatus, West Indies arrive in...

Uniting through Futsal

Westside Golf Course Opens 2025 with $100K...

Hardaiow, Mahabeer cop best batter and bowler...

FL Sport extends support to Polly’s Nursery...

Features/Columnists

The Horse Racing Authority Bill will solve nothing!

Forget Begging Rich Nations: Caribbean Countries Should Act to Save Themselves

Guyanese at the movies

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]

The surveillance tape will tell the story

Share this:

Related

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show | December, 2nd, 2024

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Features/Columnists

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]