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More careful reporting must be encouraged in the future

May 03, 2012 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to three Articles published by Kaieteur News purportedly contributed to the paper by Ms. Konyo Sandiford – State Counsel on Sunday 29th April, 2012: at page 28, captioned “Awareness of the New Sexual Offences Act is An Imperative – State Counsel” (with photo inset); Monday the 30th April, 2012 captioned “Rape of Mentally Challenged Persons Could Attract Life Imprisonment” (with photo inset); and on Tuesday 1st May, 2012: at page 19 captioned “Eyewitness accounts, positive ID does not guarantee justice – State Counsel” (with photo inset).
Please note that the above mentioned articles contain excerpts of a presentation delivered by Ms. Sandiford at a World Women’s Day Panel Discussion hosted by the Women and Gender Commission on the topic: ‘Women’s Access to Justice’ on March 5th, 2012, an event already covered by your paper in your March 12th issue, where a balanced report of the presentation was made as compared to the cutting and pasting that occurred in the Sunday 29th April, 2012 article which seemed to report a direct attack on the Sexual Offence Act, 2010 as being laden with flaws – this misrepresented the general thrust of the State Counsel’s presentation regarding that piece of legislation.
Further, the cumulative effect of the above mentioned articles now reported over the past three days do not indicate at what occasion the contributions purportedly made by the State Counsel were made, and it is submitted that those articles as they are would lead and may have lead any reasonable reader to believe that Ms. Sandiford was in constant recent contact with your paper complaining about unfavourable aspects of Guyana’s Judicial System.
It is hereby requested that your newspaper clarify to the reading audience the forum where State Counsel Sandiford’s presentation was made regarding all three individually published articles mentioned above; and that more careful reporting is encouraged in the future.
Konyo Sandiford
State Counsel

EDITOR’S NOTE: In keeping with the request, the comments were indeed taken from Ms. Sandiford’s March 5th presentation. It must be made clear that there was never an intention to purport the State Counsel’s remarks as having been made recently or during separate interviews. And most importantly, there was no intent to mislead the reading audience.

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