Dear Editor,
MY career as an illustrator depends upon having a good working understanding of body language when it comes to the expressions of human and other animals.Take a second look at Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, on the front page of last Sunday’s Kaieteur News in the company of the Baishanlin officials: Were I the photographer, he would have had to give me a collaborative smile, raise his posture, remove his dark shades, and express elation. Or was he aware — I hope — that he was entangled by the entrapments snares and such methods used in commerce by the Chinese, which Glen Lall of Kaieteur News had written about some time ago?

China conducts business in the spirit of the ‘Art of War’, using methods they helped the Koreans develop in that 1950s’ conflict. If you are not honed by mechanisms and an opposing character of your own, then you will be found wanting.

I am already seeing publications that hint to the administration addressing the total depressive situation of the Minister of State. We out here are paranoid over any indication of PPP-type conduct, bringing me to the point of asking what is the volume of the compromise enacted by Baishanlin over the much-more-simplistic PPP?

To the friends of Mr Harmon: I and many others have spent the better part of the last 22 years refuting lies published through the media, using our media space. You don’t picket the Kaieteur News because it has published a picture you don’t like. If it’s libel, then sue. If not, compete, as I’m doing now.

Yours sincerely,
BARRINGTON BRAITHWAITE