I take great umbrage at the Kaieteur News (KN). This ‘independent daily’ is very dependent. It is very biased and panders to sensationalism. I will highlight two examples of its absurd behaviour and practice.
First, KN has a way of ‘taking shots’ of eroded roads and emblazoning them on its front page. Then it will insert little anti-PPP captions that are suggestive of malpractices by the said PPP Government. One case in point is the ‘gaping cave-like’ hole in a Lusignan road. The caption then suggested that tax payers’ money is being wasted, since the work was substandard, because the contract was given via corrupt PPP leaders to venal friends. What was missing was actually when, how and why the road got to that state. Too many times, the problem is not rain and substandard work, but the illegality of drivers of heavy vehicles. Many times, the ‘cross bars’ would be removed to allow heavily laden trucks to pass, and these occurrences are not reported. Thus the road, built to accommodate a designated weight capacity, is abused. What is expected then? KN should check on this.
The second case is that of KN’s protection over its ‘star’ writer, Freddie Kissoon. The man is allowed to stand in his KN cage and ‘hawk and spit’ at the PPP, ‘his enemies,’ his debunkers, and intellectuals. This really exposes the KN. I recently exposed Freddie’s lack of intellectuality, and his incorrectness of the English Grammar, yet KN will not publish the letter. I once asked KN to ask Freddie Kissoon to explain his ‘use of a few terms’ and KN just ignored me. Most people (even the least trained and learned) know that Freddie Kissoon is ‘trash’ but KN protects him. This again shows the modus operandi and motive of KN. It is sold out to a mission of besmirching.