Kaieteur News hits ‘new low’ – U.S. Embassy demands newspaper apologise for fabrication of article

Looks like they throw quite a few straws on which the PPP can grasp.

Kaieteur News caught lying again – must hold record of being caught lying more times than any printed media in the world

By Dr Leslie Ramsammy, April 1, 2015, Source

KAIETEUR News now must hold a world record – the Guinness Book World Record of being caught lying more times than any printed media in the world. Today (yesterday) they boldly printed a story that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the fearsome, police agency of the USA, is in Guyana questioning a number of senior Government officials and that the US Embassy has withdrawn the visas of four of these senior Government officials.

The story was a blatant lie. It was made up and it was libelous to the Government of Guyana. It was also a lie against the US Government and the FBI. The US Embassy has denied the presence of FBI in Guyana and has denied that they withdrew the visas of any senior Government officials.

Now the Kaieteur News has responded that it was an April’s Fool Day story.

This is a thief caught with his hands in the jar. The confession that this is a story that was an April Fool’s Day prank cannot now exonerate the Kaieteur News because the story fits a sick obsession and a strategy by the newspaper of misrepresenting facts and of telling stories that are not true with the clear intent to create a negative image of the Government. The fact is that in many places in Guyana and around the world, this story will remain with people who will continuously tell it as a fact.

Recently, Freddie Kissoon told a story of a private businessman and then after the fact stated that the story was one he heard, but had no evidence for.

These are just two recent examples that expose Kaieteur News and their public agenda to discredit the Government and its leaders without any shred of evidence. Sometimes they apologise and sometimes they merely ignore any concern expressed by citizens.

The truth is nothing in Kaieteur News can be believed. They have discredited themselves by being blinded by bitterness and hate. Bitterness and hate have clouded their judgment and have rendered the Kaieteur News from abandoning any semblance being a serious newspaper to becoming a rag to be ignored.

The people of Guyana cannot excuse Kaieteur News for a travesty that was never meant to be a joke. Having been caught they now defend themselves by saying that they were just joking. But they do this every day. They use various columns in their publication to spread rumours which become stories people spread as facts.

We do not lack a sense of humour in the Government and as Guyanese we are a people that have grown thick skinned. But there has to be a limit to people using public media to disguise a serious effort to libel people and then defend it as a joke. This is about media freedom. It is about the wicked misuse of media freedom. In other countries, Kaieteur News would have been resoundingly condemned and would have to face serious legal consequences. Yet in Guyana any effort to ensure Kaieteur News meet minimum standards of telling the truth would be regarded as restricting media freedom.

But enough is enough and we should all, whether we like this Government or not, rebuke the Kaieteur News for using April Fool as another of the various means to discredit Government officials.

This is the same publication that sees nothing wrong with a miller who sold rejected rice to Chile and left our market in Chile at jeopardy. Not a single line about a story that affects all rice farmers and the rice industry. But it is a genuine story of fact, a newsworthy story, yet because it linked to a Government critic; it is deemed as not newsworthy by Kaieteur News.

This is a publication that will find any court case in America to report, only as long as it relates to people they can link in one way or another, even if they need to make up something to (frame) Government officials. Yet when one of the officials who advises the APNU +AFC on rice has a judgment against him for US$20M and a warrant for his arrest, they ignore the story totally and treat it as not newsworthy.

This is a publication that blazed its headlines with stories of David Granger and others in the APNU+AFC brazenly accusing the Government of killing a citizen and then admitted they have no evidence, presented the story as fact. Yet without evidence, this publication highlights attack on Bharrat Jagdeo for raising the possibility that the Opposition has everything to gain from the killing of this citizen.

The Kaieteur News cannot escape condemnation. They should not escape condemnation. What does the APNU+AFC team say of this?
This is not an April Fool Day story.

By Dr Leslie Ramsammy

This dufus Leslie does not know about PUBLIC FUN.  Ow rass, like he was DRAGGED UP, he never had fun or what on All fools day?

KN must be closed down, they are a disgrace to respectable journalism.

Close down Hogwash Toilet Paper KN now !

I encourage Guyanese to read SN instead and boycott KN. SN is fair and balanced.

PYO must start a campaign for Indos to boycott KN.  

KN can be compared to dog filth.

And What shall we do with Jagdeo, the man who carried out high tech and low tech domestic violence against this woman.

Former First Lady Varshnie Singh yesterday said her nine-year marriage to President Bharrat Jagdeo was never registered.

The

Varshnie Singh

couple were married according to Hindu rites in 1998 and Singh told reporters that there were at least three attempts to register the union. She said on the first two occasions the President said he had lost the forms. By the time third attempt was made, he had assumed the presidency and had informed her that he could not be subjected to court proceedings and with that in mind she took the decision not to sign any legal documents. Singh initially did not think there was a wilful attempt to stall the process but admitted harbouring doubts in retrospect.

Keep posting hogwash. 

You just said SN is balance - this was published in SN

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...varshnie-singh-says/

Marriage to Jagdeo never registered, Varshnie Singh says

Posted By Staff Writer On January 25, 2009 @ 5:42 am In Archives | 105 Comments

Former First Lady Varshnie Singh yesterday said her nine-year marriage to President Bharrat Jagdeo was never registered.

The

Varshnie Singh

couple were married according to Hindu rites in 1998 and Singh told reporters that there were at least three attempts to register the union. She said on the first two occasions the President said he had lost the forms. By the time third attempt was made, he had assumed the presidency and had informed her that he could not be subjected to court proceedings and with that in mind she took the decision not to sign any legal documents. Singh initially did not think there was a wilful attempt to stall the process but admitted harbouring doubts in retrospect.

Singh does not have a lawyer but she is considering engaging a local firm to represent her. However, she noted that the law stipulates that in the division of property, a woman in a common-law marriage is entitled to a share of the property acquired during the marriage. She said she was a housewife during the years in the marriage before she began work with the children’s charity, the Kids First Fund.

The couple split in 2007 and have been working on a settlement since then. But last Tuesday Singh went public with complaints she did not receive proper maintenance or care during the marriage and said the Office of the First Lady was a “myth.” The previous day she had been locked out of State House on the instructions of the President and told reporters at the news conference that she had no clothing apart from what she was wearing at the time. “That was hardest thing I ever had to do in my life,” she admitted yesterday.

Singh will return to the UK on Tuesday to conduct fundraising activities for the Kids First Fund. She will return to the country in April, but met with reporters yesterday to clarify aspects of her statement.

She said her decision to go public was a last resort and emphasised that she is a “private person” but she did not see any other way. “I didn’t want to do what I ended up having to do,” she explained. “It wasn’t a joyful thing to bare your soul to the nation.” She added that she thought going public could have been avoided if the couple had agreed on an amicable parting. “I wanted to avoid conflict because he is powerful and I am an ordinary person and even if I know I tell the truth it can be spun around.”

Asked to react to critics who might say she participated in a “sham” by remaining in the union, she said, “I would say guilty as charged, but I didn’t know what else I could do. She added that she tried every single year of the marriage to get the President to agree “to call it a day” and agree to a settlement.

She dismissed the suggestion that the union was a marriage of convenience, arranged to enhance the then junior minister’s candidacy to assume the presidency. She recounted that she first saw Jagdeo when he was still Finance Minister and made his first budget presentation to the National Assembly. They met the next year at a party fundraiser in the UK and a friendship subsequently developed, she said, noting that they had similar ideas about the development of the country. She admitted that Jagdeo was “anxious” for marriage, noting that although she had suggested an engagement he insisted on marriage. “…They say women drag men up the aisle − it was the other way around,” she said, adding that she was convinced the relationship was sincere: “I thought we were in love… It was a normal relationship.”

She said the first week into the marriage she was locked out of the couple’s bedroom. She could not explain the President’s behaviour, saying he was angry and she did not know why.

Singh noted that she had returned to UK in 1999, a year after the couple were married, to further her studies. She said she had resolved not to return but had been asked by Jagdeo to attend his swearing in when he assumed the presidency that year. She recalled a kind of “pressure,” with the elections having been dubbed by the opposition as rigged. Singh agreed to attend and arrived on the morning of the swearing in, travelling directly from the airport to the ceremony.

The next year, the case that led to her creation of the Kids First Fund presented itself and she was unable to leave, although she had initially planned to hand over the organisation to someone else. “I kind of got stuck,” she said.

Explaining the decision to remove Singh from State House, President Jagdeo in a statement said it was expected that she would have left State House when they announced their separation. He pointed out that at the end of his tenure as president in 2011 he would also have to leave the residence. He explained that he was “forced” to make a “painful decision” and take steps to have Singh leave, since she refused to do so despite numerous promises.

 

I could care less about a woman who was feeding the soldier boys. They were having a good time.

Who was visiting BJ Bedroom - Kwame?

Why he put the woman out the bedroom?

I begging you, please tell BJ - STOP BENDING DOWN for Bobby.

DON't BEND DOWN.

Crab Dawgs:

Pressa does mek pipe buss..watch out deh yugi...I hear you lil frail.

Yuji is like a young spring chicken. I am preparing a massive election victory party. PPP all the way.

You know that from your family member who met her there while plying her trade?