Sherod Duncan’s call for independent local content reporting mischievous

Sep 27, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

This writer wishes to respond to a letter published in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News under the headline “Call for Independent Local Content Reporting”, by what many term as the recently-conceived A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), member, Mr. Sherod Duncan.

I am led to believe that the assertions made by the author are nothing more than a mischievous attempt to mislead the public and score cheap — yet again blundered — political points. Had the writer been genuinely concerned with properly edifying himself, rather than indulging in distortion, he would have known that the Local Content Secretariat, the unit legislatively empowered to monitor local content activities in Guyana, already prepares the detailed reports which he is asking for.

Editor, these reports are not hidden, nor are they subject to partisan whim. A simple perusal shows that the documents are compiled in accordance with the Local Content Act, passed in 2021. This is a matter of public record. The data from this report has been publicly shared via annual press conferences held by the principal ministry, budget speeches and other press material. Rather than feign ignorance and misrepresent facts, this writer believes that Mr. Duncan should ably redirect his energies towards salvaging what is left of the APNU — a political party, as we all witnessed at the recent polls, was decimated and justly lost more than half its seats in the National Assembly.

I am confident that the respective government bodies responsible for the prudent management of our patrimony will continue to do just so. Attempts to discredit this process through mischief and misinformation should not go unanswered.

Respectfully,

Mrs. June Ferreira

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