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This so-called Democratic Party wants to fetter the independent press
Dear Editor,
I refer to an article in your edition of Tuesday 8th October 2013 titled “PPP wants media regulated.”
This is a shocking but not unsurprising statement coming from the bosom of the PPP. This is a party which shouts from the rooftop that it brought (single-handedly I suppose) democracy back to Guyana.
The PPP has become so corrupt, incompetent and arrogant that they brook no criticism and with a next term of government looking more and more elusive, they are lashing out like a mad bull at any criticism, constructive or otherwise.
Mr. Editor, we lived through the days of Forbes Burnham’s PNC rule when a license was required to import newsprint. That was deemed unconstitutional by Justice Frank Vieira. Now this so called Democratic Party wants to fetter the independent press, maybe secured in the knowledge that few, if anyone, reads the daily rags, the Chronicle and the Times.
This is a party that controls the majority of the television stations through themselves, their cronies and lackeys, but with the tide slowly turning against them, cannot tolerate the truth.
It will not surprise me, Mr. Editor if the PPP were to bring a bill to parliament to have newsprint controlled. If and when that is done, I hope the lawyer appearing for the free press will invoke the memory and spirit of the late Doodnauth Singh SC who was the person who opened the arguments for the New Guyana Company before Justice Veira.
Trevor Williams
MP
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