Cabinet condemns Kaieteur News Dem Boys Seh column as sexist, racist, libellous

CABINET has deemed the recent Kaieteur News article on Town Clerk Carol Sooba in the ‘Dem Boys Seh’ column as “sexist, racist, and libellous”.Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, speaking yesterday at his weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President in Georgetown, said: “There can be no question about (the article being)an abuse of press freedom. History is replete with such abuses.”

However, he pointed out that considerable efforts have been made, and will continue to be made, to render the use of press freedom a more responsible exercise. “Various remedies have been tried. Sadly, there are outposts in the journalistic world where anarchy prevails, and Kaieteur News reigns supreme in this regard. This most recent ‘Dem Boys Seh’ is so offensive that even the tough cringe,” Luncheon remarked.

“The recent piece on the Town Clerk is a fit example of the pit into which Kaieteur News has descended, and to which the media fraternity has lamely commented and responded. The fairly explicit defamation arising from Kaieteur News’ depiction of (Sooba’s) work was strongly objected to by Cabinet. The feeling at Cabinet is shocking, and indeed (this piece of writing) took the cake,” Luncheon said.
Written By Telesha Ramnarine

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