THE big boys at The Kaieteur News are now seeing ‘hard times’: A bad ‘present’ for X-MAS.

Firstly, reading the controversies now surrounding Mr. Glen Lall, one feels that his entire media agency is probably a poor excuse for a standard newspaper. On the contrary, others see the evolution of a journalistic career. Choosing a journalistic profession, like politics, one is confronted with a regiment of novices just out to pomp and impress the Guyanese people. Surely, it is by mistakes one is corrected and properly moulded by his journalistic or political environments.

It is certainly sad that the local journalistic bodies are silent.

Rather than having professionals from another specialty field having to do all the intellectual calculations and grunt work, one somehow feels that senior, experienced and professional journalists need have a say; but everyone at times are involved in their own self-justifications and glorification to recognise the plight of the common man.

I bet that many Guyanese would be interested to have a rendezvous with the taped conversation and would like to hear the content and quality of the dialogue.

Politics have an important part to play but it often deprives skilled people from doing their jobs. Whether we will all evolve from our shameful past is another matter for seasoned
professionals to consider.

DEOANAND GEER