Mr. HARRY Gill’s letter in the Kaieteur News on July 29 identifies him as intellectually disadvantaged on the subject of media rules and regulations.
It therefore makes it easier for me to treat him as another `opportunist’ who abuses media space to attack the government as he has so faithfully done on this occasion.

There is no if or but about my position on the rules that govern media access into the Office of the President and State House. I rather suspect Mr. Gill may have a learning impairment and for this reason I am prepared to repeat, “It has been a long-established rule that media practitioners, including reporters and cameramen, visiting the Office of the President and State House for assignments, are required to present their Government Information Agency (GINA) press passes to security officials for entry into any of these premises.”
Actually, the record will show that the same Kaieteur News has complied with this rule before (which required its reporters to gain access to these facilities using GINA press passes) and therefore one needs to identify its motive for such a sudden change in position. Its last submission to GINA for accreditation applied was for 11 press passes for its reporters and photographers.
Kaieteur News, like all other media houses, is expected to comply with these rules.
Let me reiterate what has been a deliberate omission by Mr. Gill and Kaieteur News –Mr. Yohann Earle, reporter of GNNL and Mr. Vishal Seokumar, Studio Supervisor of NCN, were also denied access on the day in question because they did not have their GINA press pass.
Mr. Adam Harris, Editor-in-Chief of KN, made no fuss about such similar rules while he served the PNCR administration before 1992 when media personnel had to be accredited by the Government Information Service and its successor, the Guyana Public Communications Agency (GPCA).
Mr. Gill should therefore stay away from addressing matters on which he is not competent.