Dear Editor,
I DECIDED to pen this letter in the hopes that it will be read by the de facto President of the Guyana Press Association (GPA), who has failed to hold elections since it was constitutionally due in January 2020.

The GPA President, who is most aggressive in attempting to hold the government accountable is, in fact, practising the complete opposite.

In February 2022, the de facto President is on record as saying that elections will be called before the end of the year. We are now in 2023, and there have been no elections.

She has not engaged with members of her Association about the cause of the delay, and no one knows why she continues to hold on to power.

Editor, I find it most appalling that the de facto President participated in the recent elections of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers, where she’s served as the President (2021-2023), when she cannot call elections in her own backyard.

Many people in the media are also shocked at the silence of the remaining three veteran journalists who are serving as executive members, despite their tenure with the Press Association being expired.

The executive of the GPA has been reduced to a four-man show, and I hope that the de facto President does the right thing and calls the much-needed elections.

Yours respectfully,
Concerned media worker