Dear Editor,
I FOUND a cartoon in Stabroek news (October 3, 2019) to be obscene, with its editor Anand Persaud holding up a placard saying, “Pay your bills.”
This cartoon clearly is about the publishing of government advertisements for which this administration has doled out a whopping $768 million since 2015. Stabroek News raked in $ 196 million!

The Department of Public Information (DPI) has explained, and Stabroek News admitted, that this newspaper refused to carry government ads. It also refused to carry releases from the Ministry of the Presidency!

The DPI has called this a political blockade and I agree. It admitted that all media are owed from time to time, since the various government ministries and agencies need time to clear their payments. The issue therefore is not about payment, it is about Stabroek News political agenda to blame the coalition government and to expose Guyana to attacks from abroad.
Regards
Cheryl Campbell