Latest update November 9th, 2024 1:00 AM
Kaieteur News – Go ahead, Mr. Jagdeo! Yank the State ads, pull all of them. Take them and give them to whoever serves Guyana’s interests more. Go further, Jagdeo: pressure private sector friends to stop placing their ads in KN. If that is what is believed will paralyze this publication, then go ahead and give it a good try. Write the president and let him decide. KN will survive, will be better for the experience. Encourage friendly businesses to withdraw their ad placements with KN, and the world will see what kind of leader Bharrat Jagdeo is.
To threaten to yank ads from a small newspaper market like Guyana is lower than low, the lowest. To do it before, and now bring out that poisoned tipped weapon again, is an exercise in futility. KN will not be stopped; truth has a way to shine through any darkness, rise above any deed that speaks to the ugly nature of leaders bent on silencing freedom of the press. Ads were stopped before in one of Jagdeo’s vindictive moves and look where it got him. Does he really want to attract the attention and outrage of the world during an election period, with such a punitive measure as to be holding State ads like a weapon over KN? The message from this paper and its publisher is straight from the shoulder: pull the ads and put Kaieteur News on a higher pedestal. What reporting is being suppressed, what is it that the government seeks so passionately to hide? What possible secrets and failures do Jagdeo himself wish not to be exposed to the reading public, local and foreign?
It is familiar knowledge that ads are part of the oxygen of any newspaper. Jagdeo knows this, so for him even to go down the road of uttering a threat to tamper with the flow of ads to this paper has only one objective. It is to block Guyanese from knowing all the weaknesses and wrongs that are part and parcel of his oil management, of his uselessness as a national leader. Even whispering privately about what is tormenting and then threatening indicate how so much has gone wrong in Guyana, why so much is going downhill in this the Age of Oil in this country. The PPPC Government, the president, and this same Vice President Jagdeo all should be firmly and fearlessly focused on facing up to ExxonMobil, so that Guyana does better with its oil wealth. Instead, Jagdeo squanders his time, wastes his energy, and misuses resources to crush KN into silence, or out of existence. He will not succeed; he will fail and fall on his face. This happened to him before when State ads were pulled, and it will happen to him again, with his own actions coming back to reveal the lowness and meanness in him, which is what already make many look differently at him.
The free and independent media in Guyana should never be seen as an adversary in the fight for what is fair for Guyana for its oil patrimony. The independent and unfettered media, of which this publication is proud to be a part of, is a worthwhile and formidable ally to any nationally oriented government, any national leader, in the tough struggle for more for Guyana from its wealth. Jagdeo knows this as well as anyone, but he is so enslaved to the commands of ExxonMobil that he cannot help himself. He is so imprisoned by the likes of Alistair Routledge that he is helpless to do anything, even to save his own dignity. So, he is now resorting to taking his curses and intimidations to another level. There is the soft, setup question involving State ads served to him week after week by one of his media pawns, which even a blind man can see, or an idiot detect, so brazenly transparent Jagdeo is.
The threat, repeated more than once, is now out in the open. We don’t know if Jagdeo expects KN to turn turtle and allow him to kick Guyanese around. What we do know is that he will not prevail. The darkness in Jagdeo fears the light of truth. KN is about that light.
Nov 09, 2024
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