Article designed to create mischief

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,

 It would be a rather strange day if the Kaieteur News is not up to its traditional roles of sensationalising and making mischief, its two reasons for existence. Its latest example of the latter culture, a column captioned “UNASUR detention triggers man’s death”, is another signpost of its deliberate policy of daily misrepresentation of a government that it faults for every conceivable issue, even for the sun not shining! 

This latest piece is an example of gross misrepresentation, spite and grudge, especially against the background of the nation being the proud and successful hosts of the just concluded fourth UNASUR summit. 

It is the prerogative of the state to remove the homeless and destitute from the streets and give them sanctuary, a function which that media entity has always castigated the administration for allegedly not doing. 

That the deceased, along with others, is being removed, albeit coincidentally at the onset of the Summit, points to an effort of finding a refuge, where he ought to have been anyway, for him. The fact of his death has nothing to do with or as a result of the summit. It has to do with a decision taken on his own volition that ended his life. 

Thus the caption, one that instantly conveys the understanding that the man died because of the Summit being staged here, is not only a white lie, but is designed to create great mischief.      

Respectfully,

Peter Jones

 

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