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Resignations over columnists’ sacking… Chronicle’s board wishes directors the best
Resigned: Tabitha Sarabo-Halley
Bert Wilkinson
Weeks after two columnists were controversially cut loose from the state-owned Guyana Chronicle, three board members have protested by tendering their resignation.
Journalist Bert Wilkinson, university lecturer Karen Davis and Tabitha Sarabo-Halley, a senior official of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), were the ones who resigned.
Another board member, Ruel Johnson, also confirmed Tuesday evening that he has signaled his intention to resign, and will very shortly do so formally, effective April 1st. He did not attend a board meeting earlier that day.
Sources indicate that the normal board meeting would be held every Tuesday. However, during the board meeting, it was announced that the three directors had signaled their intentions to not be part of the board anymore. They were reportedly against the decision of Editor-in-Chief, Nigel Williams, to end the two columns.
Williams reportedly insisted that the decision was his, in keeping with restructuring of the newspaper in a new direction.
Resigned: Karen Davis
However, it was felt that the decisions were political-motivated because Lincoln Lewis, a trade unionist, and Dr. David Hinds, a WPA activist, were both critical of the Coalition Government.
Also resigning: Ruel Johnson
The current board, headed by attorney-at-law and ministerial advisor, Geeta Chandan-Edmond, reportedly in a meeting after the decision to sever ties with the two columnists, had stuck with the decision of the Editor-in-Chief, despite some differences in opinion by the board members.
Meanwhile, the Guyana National Newspapers Limited, parent company of the Guyana Chronicle, in a statement confirmed that at its board meeting on Tuesday, it received the tendered resignations of Directors Tabitha Halley, Bert Wilkinson and Karen Davis.
“The Board notes and lauds the many contributions of the Directors and takes this opportunity to wish them well in their future endeavours.”
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