IN the March 19, 2026 edition of the Kaieteur News (KN) on page two, there appeared a whole page colour advertisement with 128 signatures of which five were organisations, and the rest were individuals. I am not good at counting so it could be slightly above 128.

The placement was the work of The Usual Suspects (TUS), all of which are from the Mulatto/Creole class (MCC). Before we proceed, this has been the first time TUS has taken out an advertisement in KN. Both the personalities in TUS and the MCC are not too fond of KN. Their choice of paper was the MCC-owned Stabroek News (SN). Both TUS and MCC have a low opinion of KN. I wrote for KN so I know how these folks regard KN.

I took out the names of seven Indian persons because they are close to both TUS and the MCC. That left us with 14 Indian signatures constituting a mere 12.5 percent of folks who signed the advertisement. That is not a good sign of the politics of TUS and MCC. The question needs to be asked is that in a placement in the newspaper praising the work of the SN, only 14 Indian persons were contacted out of 128?

Anyway, the content of the placement is very disturbing because it seeks to deliberately deceive the people of this country. It is times like these that you need to write so this young nation can be mentally free of deceptions and fictions that are designed to fool them.

Here are the deceptive words in that advertisement: “Stabroek News carried our news and views…ranging from solidarity with Palestine and outrage against genocide in Gaza.”

This is a blatant fiction. This is a gargantuan deception. This is an enormous act of deceit.

Of those 128 signatures, none ever published even one word denouncing genocide in Gaza and lamenting the Israeli terror against the people of Palestine. My job is to read the newspapers. I have read every newspaper every day since Israel began killing the Palestinian people. I repeat: none of those 128 signatures ever published even one line about Gaza even after two and a half years of genocide.

I can identify the person among those signatures that made public statements in denunciation of Israeli terror in Gaza. One is Vanda Radzik who spoke at the seawall esplanade symposium. Charlene Wilkinson shared out flyers at that event. And I saw Sherlina Nageer sharing out pamphlets at the Ramadan Village last year. There was a picket exercise outside CARICOM and Ms. Radzik was there.

There was one huge march which started from the Umana Yana. Bonita Harris and others mentioned above were in the March. The SN only reported on that march and no other Palestinian event in this country. The SN took a policy of not reporting on Palestinian activities during the Israeli bombing.

Here is a list of events SN ignored since the bombing began two and a half years ago. There were two public marches that took place from the Square of the Revolution with speeches after the marches.

They were sponsored by Guyana Committee for Palestine headed by Halim Khan, former head of Region Three Chamber of Commerce. At one of the events, Kaieteur News (KN) publisher, Glen Lall was there. KN reported on the events.

There were two public symposia at Square of the Revolution. Former President Donald Ramotar spoke and Palestine’s Ambassador to Guyana. A picket in solidarity with Palestine was held outside the Conference Centre during the visit there of Tony Blair. Palestine’s Ambassador to UN held a talk at the Marriott Hotel on the genocide. The Mayor of Georgetown offered a comment during question time.

For three months, a lone figure named Shamal Zamaluddin held a one-man picket in support of Palestine at the junction of Dowding Street and Vlissengen Road. The News Room media house featured his bravery.

I repeat- the SN did not carry any of these events. Months after the bombing started, through the initiative of a Western diplomat, SN interviewed Israel’s ambassador to the UN in which the most basic requirements of an interview were abandoned and SN made the Ambassador look good.

SN never ran a front-page story on the genocide, contrary to Kaieteur News that did 10. Dhanraj Bhagwandin, former journalist in support of SN, could only point to one foreign news item that SN carried on Gaza.

The Stabroek News was not interested in Gaza because the Stabroek News from day one of its birth was a vehicle for Western/imperialist narratives and shamelessly so. Those who can write that SN gave space to the suffering Palestinian people are unfit to be among us.

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