Your reporting was unfair to Mr. Jagnarine Singh

Feb 08, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I noticed in your coverage of the Vishnu Singh news story, your headline said, “Official’s son charged…,” and in the first paragraph, your paper said, “Vishnu Singh, the son of a high-profile member of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).” You continued, “General Manager of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), Jagnarine Singh, was present in the courtroom…” Your article also said, “After the matter was heard, the GRDB Manager left the court room and returned to post bail for his son.”
Sir, I am not a member of the PPP; I do not know the accused or his father; I do not have business at the Rice Board, but I do think that the slant of your reporting is unfair to Mr. Jagnarine Singh. I am pretty sure that when the alleged incident happened that day, the father did not say to his son, “Go out and rape or bugger someone today.” For those of us who have children, we know that children do the darnedest things, even if they come from the best of homes, and they embarrass their families. You cannot crucify or blame the father for what the son did. And parents would be there to pick up the pieces when children fail.
Dumb things are done by children of parents from any party, race, or religion. We cannot demonize the parent just because he is a member of the PPP. We should not demonize the parent because he happens to have an important position in a state entity. The alleged act of the son has nothing to do with the GRDB; the parent was not in court for a GRDB matter or PPP matter.
I consider the Kaieteur News (along with the pre-1992 Mirror) to be the bastions of press freedom in Guyana. However, you have to be careful to not demonize people with such slanted reporting.
Dr. Jerry Jailall

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