This newspaper carried a letter in Sunday’s edition (July 12th, 2015) which questioned whether U.S. Charge d’Affairs in Guyana, Mr Bryan Hunt, was overstepping his boundaries as a foreign diplomat with regard to comments being made relating to issues of national concern.In retrospect, the letter’s content was inflammatory and ought to have benefitted from more astute editorial judgment.

The views expressed in the letter, written by a former electoral candidate, are not the views of this newspaper. The letter can be reasonably construed as an attack on several diplomatic missions in Guyana and the Heads of those missions.

The Guyana Chronicle sincerely and unreservedly apologises for the publication of the letter in the form it was published. No attack, deliberate or otherwise, on any diplomatic mission was intended.

Further, the Guyana Chronicle welcomes the bold and definitive statements, particularly that of Mr Hunt with regard to the threat to Guyana’s sovereignty. This newspaper also welcomes the support for Guyana’s territorial integrity from the regional and international community.

This newspaper also re-commits to exercising more conscientious editorial judgment with regard to the publication of letters which are received and which contain inflammatory content.