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There are huge credibility gaps in Adam Harris’ story
DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to Adam Harris’ “The former rulers are fooling themselves” published under his weekly “My Column” in the Kaieteur News of June 14, 2015. There are huge credibility gaps in Harris’ story. T
he records would show that Harris was a former editor of the Guyana Chronicle under the PNC dictatorship. He and Urmiah Johnson, the then Assistant General Secretary of the PNC, were registered as being the owners of the Guyana Media Company Ltd., which owned, printed, published and circulated the New Nation the official organ of the PNC. At one time it was claimed that the New Nation ceased being the official organ of the PNC.
Harris was sent by the PNC to edit the New Nation from 1980 to 1988, he then returned to edit the Chronicle resigning after the PPP’s assumption to office on Oct 5, 1992.
Harris still claims monies in lieu of “unbroken service” as an employee of the Chronicle for the years he served at the New Nation. His claim is based on an arrangement made between himself and the PNC, in keeping with its philosophy of party paramountcy that his placement at the New Nation was facilitated through the then Ministry of National Development, which is believed to have provided his pay-packet to edit the New Nation.
In a booklet entitled “Paramountcy over the media – a case for reform” Moses Nagamootoo wrote; “…there is so much which Harris should answer as a friend and professional colleague for the obscene and arrogant manner in which the state-owned newspaper is mis-used to propagate the views of the authoritarian ruling party…”
These are the gaps Harris left out from his article which incidentally, would not have been complete since half was spoken and the other half left unspoken. Suh dem bhais seh.
Brian A Azore
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