TWICE I heard Timothy Jonas, the General Secretary of the opposition party, ANUG, refer to the Chronicle as a rag. In one instance, I took him up when he repeated it on the Freddie Kissoon Gildarie Show. Mr. Jonas is yet to define what is meant by a newspaper being a rag. When he does, the debate will start, and I will jump into it.

If a newspaper becomes more consistently vulgar and irrational than the opposition parties in blind and malicious condemnations of the elected government of the day, then I would like to see an argument that tells me such a newspaper does not meet the criterion of being a rag.

I have never seen, since August 2020, when the new PPP government came into being, the use of a more frequently vituperative vocabulary to criticise the government from any opposition party than what frequently appears in the Stabroek News.

Mr. Jonas puts himself in a self-erasing, self-destructive position when he criticises the government for conduct unbecoming and remains silent about the descent into ragged behavior by his own organisation, the Stabroek News (SN).

Mr. Jonas is the attorney for SN and sits on its board of directors, whose identity remains a secret. I call upon Mr. Jonas to fulfill his obligation to the Guyanese people to be transparent and name the board. I would like to see the argument of those board members that the SN does not meet the criterion of being an opposition party, but is an independent newspaper.

Please remember this column. When the names of the board are revealed, it will be one hundred percent from the Mulatto/Creole class. Remember this column when it happens.

Mr Jonas opens himself to the charge of double standards, and the possibility becomes strong that his party will suffer declining numbers. In politics, hypocrisy, and double standards are an assured way of damaging your credibility and turning off voters.

On Friday last, I confronted Jonas on a theory that he penned last week in SN. It is the prolongation of a theory of politics in Guyana that has long become useless. It points to the PPP and PNC parties as two ethnic stallions. There are more ethnic stallions in Guyana, and, as Barry Manilow wrote in his famous song, “Could it be magic,” those stallions, when they rise, they reach as far as the sun.

If Jonas has been reading the editorials of his newspaper and its columnists (except Mr. Ramkarran who is not an SN columnist) then he would see right before his eyes the existence of other ethnic stallions, one of which is his newspaper. I would like to ask Mr. Jonas if he thinks that his paper has editorial writers whose insane rambling against the government is unmatched in all quarters in Guyana, including the Kaieteur News and the opposition parties.

Here are two examples of an insanely hostile anti-government person who writes many SN editorials. I will juxtapose the two quotes so you can see for yourself the evidence of a newspaper becoming a rag.
Quote 1- “It’s just our dumb luck that Exxon found oil here. And it may not even end up being good dumb luck.” Saturday, February 3, 2024.

Quote 2- “What they (the PPP leaders) really are is (sic) plain lucky. Exxon chose Liza over the Skipjack well. Two wells, one decision, that is how incredibly lucky they are.” Saturday, January 13, 2024.”
Look at the two quotes and you can see they are from the same writer. But here is the second example to reinforce that evidence.

Quote 3 – “Living in a poorly managed, lawless, and filthy country still cursed with poverty.” Saturday, February 4, 2024.

Quote 4 – “Look at the mess this country remains in, a filthy nation from Crabwood Creek to Charity and widespread poverty.” Saturday, January 13, 2024.

You have to be dishonest not to see the graphic similarity in the four quotes and that they come from the same mind. I will direct you to two words in that Saturday’s last editorial that point to the Mulatto/Creole mind that wrote both of those editorials.

The Mulatto/Creole class has always disparaged Guyanese East Indians for bad grammar. Indians have put up with this since the abolition of indenturship. I have heard millions of times Mulatto/Creole people laughing at the bad grammar.

Here now is a quote from the editorial: “It is easy to get caught up in the annual budget carnival with the mangled grammar.”
The real mess in this country lies in its psychology—that it can produce a newspaper like the Stabroek News and the ugly minds in the online comments section. Really! What a mess!