SOME of the media houses are blatant in their continuous efforts to downplay government’s many efforts to bring development to Guyana. The Kaieteur News, I feel, is in the forefront of such efforts as it tries to portray events and projects in a negative light. The media houses continue to feature stories aimed at making the Guyanese people feel that nothing good is being done for the country.
Progress has come to Guyana in these past years and the developments are there for everyone to see and derive benefits from and this spans all the sectors.
The media now try to create misunderstandings in the energy sector by focusing on the transfer of the contract for the Amaila Falls Hydropower project from Synergy to Sithe Inc. This transfer, as the Prime Minister explained is not illegal and therefore is not going to hamper development. The Prime Minister explained that this is common practice in the construction of large projects on the international scene. The matter of the transfer was a matter of public information but yet the media houses are still trying to mislead the public.
What these biased media houses focus on is the transfer instead of the numerous benefits Guyana will derive from the completion of this project. The fact that Government continues to find ways of developing all the sectors of Guyana is commendable and it should be seen as just that, a matter of development in a sector that is in need of diversification.
The media houses that try to create a dark cloud over progress should be ashamed because in this way they show a definite bias.