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Office of the President needs to advise Ms Malika Ramsey

Nov 02, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Having read the letter of Malika Ramsey, who is also Minister of State Joe Harmon’s media/press personnel, it shed some insight into the government communication strategy that contributes to negative perceptions and angst among the people, and allows the opposition PPP/C to walk all over the leadership. Reference is made to the letter “PNC accuses Guyana Chronicle of an unethical purpose” (KN 31st October 2016) The Guyana Chronicle came in for derision, having been accused of not being accurate in its coverage on the story of the PNCR Members of Parliament and PNCR Government Ministers holding meetings at Congress Place.
The last the nation knew, the state-owned Chronicle is under new management and the subject minister is Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo of the APNU+AFC government that Ms. Ramsey is part of. Consequently tact would advise it is not smart communication nor can political utility be derived for the government she works for, in no less a place than its policy wing, by taking the derisive approach.
Someone in the Office of President needs to pull Ms. Ramsey aside and advise that the APNU+AFC is not the political opposition and the Guyana Chronicle is not under the PPP/C management. It may also be prudent to point out the minister in charge is right down the hall and a conversation could have been had with him or the newspapers to do a retraction and correction. This would be a more sensible approach of the policy-making wing of government in venting and correcting.
That being said, the indignation directed at the newspaper, such energy would have been better spent revisiting the language and positioning of the content in the press release that had lent to widespread impression that people are meeting Government Ministers at Congress Place as against PNCR Members of Parliament setting aside a particular date and time to meet with their constituents.
Minette Bacchus

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