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Pan African group expresses solidarity with Hinds, Lewis over Chronicle ban

Mar 26, 2018 News

 

The Pan African Movement (Guyana Branch) is expressing “dismay and disbelief” at the news of the banning of eminent columnists Dr. David Hinds and Trade Unionist Lincoln Lewis from the Chronicle Newspaper.
“The unwarranted action comes at a time when we have fought valiantly to restore freedom of the press in Guyana and indeed when our own President David Granger urged that we be courageous in expressing our view of reality,” a release stated.
“It is at this time that the attempt is made to muzzle the voices of two eminently intelligent and eloquent young African-Guyanese men.
“In this International Decade for the People of African Descent, when we have come from the long tradition of Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Linden Forbes Burnham, Nelson Mandela…it is a disgrace that the Chronicle newspaper that is supposed to be the people’s paper, should so brutally treat our two sons of whom we are proud, considering their academic and social achievements.
They have in fact been contributing to the paper’s popularity among African Guyanese and those who take a long view of history.
The Pan African Movement (Guyana Branch) believes that there can be no compromise on press freedom. We believe that we have long passed the age when political operatives view ‘distension with dissent’
The Movement also wishes to remind the incumbent Administration of its own valiant struggles against political domination of the state media which actually led to the opposition’s vote to reduce the proposed budgetary allocation to GINA and NCN from $211 million to $1 in 2012.
Dr. David Hinds and Brother Lincoln Lewis have been making a worthwhile contribution to the readership of the newspaper and their efforts should not be arbitrarily tossed aside. It is a shameful and regrettable act by the Chronicle newspaper.
We look forward to the early reinstatement of these two outstanding African Guyanese Brothers to the columns of OUR newspaper.”

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