Granger blazes Chronicle for inaccurate report

Apr 12, 2014 News

– says President might have been misinformed
Opposition Leader, David Granger, has stated that the report by the Guyana Chronicle which reported him

President Donald Ramotar

as saying that Guyana is developed with drug money is rooted in inaccuracy. President Donald Ramotar was quoted by the Chronicle as calling on Granger, the Leader of the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), to issue an apology to all Guyanese for his “insulting comment.”
Granger made it pellucid that he did not make the statements that President Ramotar attributed to him.
“On Tuesday I said that ‘the Public security crisis will not correct itself. Narco-trafficking is the engine of growth that is driving this country’s high rates of money laundering, gun running, execution murders and armed robberies. Violent crime is scaring foreign investors, driving away the educated elite, undermining economic growth and impeding social development.”
The Opposition Leader said that he believes Ramotar was misinformed.
Granger said, “I never accused business men of being narco-traffickers or that they are responsible for bringing crime into the country.”
A letter was also issued by the Director of APNU Public Relations Office, Mark Archer to the Editor in Chief of the Chronicle Newspaper.
The letter said, “The Leader of the Opposition Brigadier David A.Granger refutes the President’s allegation and deems erroneous, all subsequent remarks reported by the Chronicle in the article, pertaining to his 2014