Dear Editor
MR Mark Benschop has made a very timely intervention in the ongoing debate about the Cyber Crime Bill. Benschop’s letter to the Stabroek News which was reproduced in an article in the Guyana Chronicle, rightly exposes the hypocrisy of the People’s Progressive Party in trying to whitewash its own dismal failure in governing this country.

Several persons in our recent history were charged with sedition, yet that party’s chief legal spokesperson, Anil Nandlall, lied to the nation by boldly proclaiming that no one has been charged with sedition for nearly 130 years. Benschop reminded Nandlall thatl he (Benschop, the late Ronald Waddell and Oliver Hinckson) were charged under the same law, while Bharrat Jagdeo was President not so long ago.

This is the sort of duplicity that the PPP must not be allowed to get away with and Mr Benschop must be commended for this. There are several other instances when the PPP in recent times have tried to hoodwink the nation, with a form of born-again morality, speaking out against alleged corruption and the likes, when these issues were never confronted by that party whilst in government.

As we celebrate World Press Freedom day today, the media must now take up its rightful role in challenging some of the statements being put out by Freedom House.
Regards
Troy Garraway