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A new watcher, reporter
Hard Truths…
(Kaieteur News) – Kiskadee Watch is here. Daily. Online only. For now. Much more in the pipeline. Took some time, talent, and treasure from a few to get to here. From nowhere beside a vision to reach where it is today. More is needed. From Guyanese who yearn for the virtues of a free and balanced press. Free and fair has many more application than elections only. It is an obligation of quality journalism. Credible journalism is trusted journalism. All sides of an issue given a fair shake. No one muzzled. None attacked. A few have led the way to get KW going. Guyanese who extol the benefits of an independent media now have their part to play. Active participants. Part of the framework that reinforces the Fourth Estate to its best.
The people at Kaieteur News have come out publicly to support the arrival of KW. KN’s publisher doesn’t see a competitor. He sees a much-needed contributor in the ongoing fight for clean governance, trusted leadership, and holding both accountable. It’s what makes for a better society. It’s what adds another plank. However insignificant at the inception. Towards the road of democracy. The PPP Gov’t should welcome the presence of KW. After all, it is Excellency Ali who has insisted repeatedly that he and his government are fully in the corner of transparency and accountability. He just acquired an ally, an asset, in those two vital aspects of a country’s existence. It’s quality of life. For what’s transparency and accountability at its best, if not about a government that excels at both? What government can be so crass as to curse an addition to the Fourth Estate? Envision a problem for itself. What did government do? What’s to conceal? Similarly, which leader could be so nakedly, unashamedly, vulgar that he or she sees a free press presence as a threat to their standing, as a menace to society? Men with names and histories, such as Adolf Hitler and Uncle Joe Stalin, saw the worse in a free press. According to the new and improved PPP, Uncle Joe is gone. Uncle Sam is in; the new protective, comforting presence around. Ahem and amen, I say. Just be careful, I also say. Because some uncles have roving eyes. Their own interests come first.
The political opposition, the PNC in particular, has had its troubles with the now cashed-out Stabroek News. Today, the combined opposition is squeezed into narrower and narrower spaces. The opposition, combined and individually (just like the ruling party), needs the presence of a KW to hold the feet of all politicians and public servants to the fire. So, they straighten up in a hurry. Get their business straight. For proper representation (of the people). For potent and pungent articulation (of their positions). Give me Guyana’s muzzled, Guyana’s hemmed in, Guyana’s tied up. So that their voices can be heard, their postures recorded and reported. Government gets covered, gives itself a chance to recover. Opposition gets ventilated, gives itself a chance to clean-up its individual acts. A KW, along the lines of KN, provides that platform. To be heard. Not to dictate. Certainly not to command and control.
The Guyanese people want their weariness and woes to be hung on a line. So, the world sees and hears how Guyanese live in Guyana. the richest country in the world. Cost of living. Minimum wage. Livable wage. Flood plagues. Blackouts. Safety and security. Fair and fearless policing. Credible judiciary. Parliamentary integrity. Unlevel playing field. Indigenous rights. Uneasy leadership. Unsavory government fronts. Criminalising conscientious citizens. And, naturally, oil and gas management. This list is only a start. Sufficient, I think. It’s why a Kiskadee Watch, a Kaieteur News, is of such priceless value to all Guyanese. I endorse. All political leaders should. Guyanese must show where they stand with their mouth and ways material.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)
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