IN my offering last Saturday, I wrote that I will pen a few reflections on Stabroek News (SN) before its closure on Sunday coming. This is the second article in that contribution. I have been writing these daily pieces for years now because I know they add to the recording of the history of Guyana.
When people, ten years from now, go to Google and type in Stabroek News of Guyana, they will see my assessments. They will see the absolute obfuscations of SN’s politicised journalism by those who have no shame in overlooking the dastardly flaws of that newspaper.
I belong to the tradition of the 1970s. That was a time of unlimited vision for those who loved Guyana and stayed to fight for its future. I belong to that era in Guyana when any and everything was questioned and people’s thoughts were about humans and what they were entitled to. It was about the power of class analysis. I lived in that era where class arrogance, ethnic preaching and degradation of human values were passionately denounced.
Fast forward the tape to 2026 and the people who express their admiration for SN make you want to throw up. The praise is not only misdirected but disgustingly sickening. Just read what these people have to say about a newspaper that, since 2020, has become a bulldog barking every morning at the gate of the Government of Guyana and then the boss comes to the dog and removes the leash.
Those people who sing their sycophantic praise to SN’s questionable journalism wallow in their country’s destruction. Google the editions of SN for the month of September 2020 to the months of the next year, and you will see this country could have seen some of the most internecine moments in race war since the 1960s.
The Stabroek News and the Guyana Human Rights Association wanted the Guyanese people to believe that East Indian folks in Cotton Tree killed two African youths over joyful celebrations over the PPP’s victory in the 2020 general elections. As Indians were attacked on the East Coast and beaten and had their properties destroyed, anti-government activists visited Buxton and Agricola to instigate violence in those villages.
They did not succeed. Think of what would have happened to Guyana if they had succeeded. Yet there are crude, sadistic humans in this country and in the Guyana diaspora who write daily letters in the SN telling the world that this newspaper was a light that shone brightly over Guyana. If this newspaper had gotten its way in Cotton Tree in September 2020, there would have been no Guyana.
The judge normally asks the defence counsel to prove his/her case. The judge normally demands evidence. Here now is incontrovertible evidence of degenerate journalism in the pages of SN. If you cannot see this as proof, you are unfit to be a parent. You are unfit to be part of the future of this country.
In last Tuesday’s issue of SN, there is a signature under a letter with the name Gerald Pereira. Google that name and you will never find a letter by him for any year in the past ten to fifteen years. Mr. Pereira is a friend of mine that I have known since I was 18 years old. He is one of Guyana’s most experienced political citizens and perhaps Guyana’s most experienced Pan-Africanist.
He lived in many countries in Africa and the Arab world. Mr. Pereira is a dyed-in-the-wool critic of democracy as practised in the Western world. Years ago, Mr. Pereira told me that SN refused to carry his letters, so he gave up and stopped sending his missives to that newspaper. After being invisible for more than a decade in the letter section of SN, suddenly Mr. Pereira appeared last Tuesday and his letter was almost half a page.
Why, after so long, did SN give space to Mr. Pereira? To understand it, you have to read Mr. Pereira’s missive. It is an acidic condemnation of President Ali’s visit to the US, where he appeared with President Trump. Mr. Pereira accused the Guyanese president of being hand-in-glove with imperialism. Here is hard evidence presented to any Guyanese who read the SN, the extent to which this newspaper had gone overboard. It is finishing its existence drowning in the vortex of anti-government insanity.
How can any decent mind not see that in recent years, this newspaper has lost its way? If you want to sing songs of praise to SN, then do it, but how about a couple of words about truth? But then again, some people will live out their lives and never see beyond their nose.

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited.