DEAR EDITOR,
When we write the modern history of journalism in Guyana your newspaper and its staff will be highlighted not because they have been in the forefront of the exposure of the venalities of a government, but mainly because of their steadfastness in sticking to their mission. If this country had awards like the Pulitzer Prize then surely, Editor, you and your publisher would win this year’s awards.
I have stood on the sidelines and watched you persevere despite severe difficulties. You have continued to inform of happenings in the nation in a balanced and objective way. The responses of the government to your various investigations have shown them to be strangers to the truth; to be mired in abject poverty of mind; to be callous in the administration of public affairs.
To cap it all comes the telephone conversation with Mr Gildarie. In any normal jurisdiction the honourable minister would have been languishing in jail by now for his terroristic threats to the life and limb of your fellow staffers. I salute you all for carrying on even when faced with such grave threats. You have done us all proud and risen above self.
It is my view that you, Editor and Mr Lall are indeed our persons of the year. I wish Kaieteur News greater successes for the new year and the winds of change bring us all a more caring new government. Thank you for your efforts. Cyril Walker