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Kaieteur News the grand media of sensationalism and misinformation

 

The Kaieteur News has once again demonstrated in full regalia, why it is the grand media of sensationalism , among its sister CARICOM  media houses as  it sought  once again to mislead the Guyanese public on the matter pertaining to Bai Shan Lin’s logging activities in Guyana.

This is yet another unmistakable attempt, with the political opposition’s connivance, at derailing not only government’s national    socio-economic development   programmes, but also to discourage foreign investment endeavours in Guyana.  It is indeed very sad that this publishing house, can so knowingly and deliberately continue to wage economic warfare and sabotage against the State in its pages, that are wholly political in nature. And as again demonstrated, once a response is given to its pedalled misinformation and lies it does not accept such a challenge, in the form of having its reporters engage the source.  For example, it has failed to respond to the Guyana Forestry Commission’s press conference. Of course it cannot, since the latter would have nailed all the ugly lies that have been appearing in its pages, for the past two weeks. As an example of its well known chronic campaign of selective reporting, it seeks to convey to the Guyanese nation that the  Chinese logging company has been chopping down our forests, and in the process exporting all the  harvested logs. One does not need to be a political scientist to comprehend the plan behind such a journalistic strategy. What it has deliberately failed to mention is the known fact, that the company has since its arrival in Guyana, entered into many joint venture arrangements with local  loggers, and  that these  have revived the latter fortunes. If this is not high wickedness, then what else describes! Still bent on its traditional pattern of reporting, it resorted to screaming that well known Lindener Phillip Bynoe,   threatened its staff at a recent press briefing. Given the fact that Bynoe is still considered somewhat a high-profiled personality, it is quite strange that no other media house has carried such a report.  It does beg the question as to whether this is not another attempt at misleading the public. It is absolute that attacking any media house/ representatives should be   great cause for concern since it threatens a  very fundamental pillar of democracy; however,  OBSERVER has noted the double standard, not surprising, of this media,  on  this particular matter,  whether or  not  it did occur. It has alleged Bynoe’s act, as an “attack on the press”. Now, juxtapose this convenient accusation, with the deafeningly silent position taken with regards the combined opposition cuts to Budget 2012, 2013, and 2014, that affected  the annual  subventions  of the State media GINA  and  NCN. Have these acts not been attacks   on these entities’ rights to exist, and as a consequence their freedom to report on government’s policies? As has been frequently reported in this media, the Kaieteur News is a unique kind, in any region,   for its unflagging, orchestrated consistency for attacking socio-economic projects that advances the livelihoods of citizens. For there is no journal, properly established on the tenets of true professionalism, while fully understanding the imperatives of investing in  the  national well being, that will ever contemplate such treason, as has been the track record of this noxious publishing house. Clearly this, another attack on the Chinese, apart from containing the dangerous elements of xenophobia, is ingratitude to a nation that has added very, very significantly to Guyana’s economic development in ways too numerous to mention. So much has this nation and its people continue to benefit from the generousity of the Chinese people that no amount of commendations can suffice. As an aside, OBSERVER has noted that the very opposition party, the People’s National Congress(PNC) that had been the government of the day, when Guyana established diplomatic relations with China  in 1972, and had voted overwhelmingly with the United Nations  General Assembly  at that time, ensuring  that this Asian giant finally  be accorded its rightful seat as a member, now leads the anti-Chinese assault.  Is this not the greatest of contradictions? As for the greatest misinformant ever in the annals of Caribbean media publishing - its epitaph will be etched as follows:  HERE RESTS THE GREATEST OF PRINT LIARS, WHICH DEEDS CLOSED ITS PAGES!

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Originally Posted by Spontaneous emission:
As an aside, OBSERVER has noted that the very opposition party, the People’s National Congress(PNC) that had been the government of the day, when Guyana established diplomatic relations with China  in 1972, and had voted overwhelmingly with the United Nations  General Assembly  at that time, ensuring  that this Asian giant finally  be accorded its rightful seat as a member, now leads the anti-Chinese assault.

 

Kaieteur News the grand media of sensationalism and misinformation

Interesting changes from the recognition of Taiwan as the representative of all of China to the eventual recognition of the Republic of China - mainland - around 1971.

FM

We have had enough of the PPP propaganda. You can't hide the cocaine seizures, drugs submarine, barren landscape devoid of trees, and wanton financial mismanagement. Criminals always have a justification for why they are innocent. The PPP has made it a character trait.

There are no foreign investments in Guyana. Just loads of false accounting and money laundering. A barber building a road for the government is not an investment. Wanting to borrow three times as much to build a power plant is not an investment. The cricket ground was not an investment. And the Marriott hotel is not an investment. Neither is the Berbice bridge.  They are tools to aid large scale PPP fraud at the expense of the poor people.

Mr.T
Originally Posted by Mr.T:

We have had enough of the PPP propaganda. You can't hide the cocaine seizures, drugs submarine, barren landscape devoid of trees, and wanton financial mismanagement. Criminals always have a justification for why they are innocent. The PPP has made it a character trait.

There are no foreign investments in Guyana. Just loads of false accounting and money laundering. A barber building a road for the government is not an investment. Wanting to borrow three times as much to build a power plant is not an investment. The cricket ground was not an investment. And the Marriott hotel is not an investment. Neither is the Berbice bridge.  They are tools to aid large scale PPP fraud at the expense of the poor people.

Investment for you is booking a room with Sir Elton

Nehru
Originally Posted by Spontaneous emission:

Kaieteur News the grand media of sensationalism and misinformation



The Kaieteur News has once again demonstrated in full regalia, why it is the grand media of sensationalism , among its sister CARICOM  media houses as  it sought  once again to mislead the Guyanese public on the matter pertaining to Bai Shan Lin’s logging activities in Guyana.

This is yet another unmistakable attempt, with the political opposition’s connivance, at derailing not only government’s national socio-economic development   programmes, but also to discourage foreign investment endeavours in Guyana. It is indeed very sad that this publishing house, can so knowingly and deliberately continue to wage economic warfare and sabotage against the State in its pages, that are wholly political in nature. And as again demonstrated, once a response is given to its pedalled misinformation and lies it does not accept such a challenge, in the form of having its reporters engage the source.

For example, it has failed to respond to the Guyana Forestry Commission’s press conference. Of course it cannot, since the latter would have nailed all the ugly lies that have been appearing in its pages, for the past two weeks. As an example of its well known chronic campaign of selective reporting, it seeks to convey to the Guyanese nation that the  Chinese logging company has been chopping down our forests, and in the process exporting all the  harvested logs.

One does not need to be a political scientist to comprehend the plan behind such a journalistic strategy. What it has deliberately failed to mention is the known fact, that the company has since its arrival in Guyana, entered into many joint venture arrangements with local  loggers, and  that these  have revived the latter fortunes. If this is not high wickedness, then what else describes!

Still bent on its traditional pattern of reporting, it resorted to screaming that well known Lindener Phillip Bynoe,   threatened its staff at a recent press briefing. Given the fact that Bynoe is still considered somewhat a high-profiled personality, it is quite strange that no other media house has carried such a report.  It does beg the question as to whether this is not another attempt at misleading the public.

It is absolute that attacking any media house/ representatives should be   great cause for concern since it threatens a  very fundamental pillar of democracy; however,  OBSERVER has noted the double standard, not surprising, of this media,  on  this particular matter,  whether or  not  it did occur. It has alleged Bynoe’s act, as an “attack on the press”. Now, juxtapose this convenient accusation, with the deafeningly silent position taken with regards the combined opposition cuts to Budget 2012, 2013, and 2014, that affected  the annual  subventions  of the State media GINA  and  NCN. Have these acts not been attacks   on these entities’ rights to exist, and as a consequence their freedom to report on government’s policies?

As has been frequently reported in this media, the Kaieteur News is a unique kind, in any region,   for its unflagging, orchestrated consistency forattacking socio-economic projects that advances the livelihoods of citizens. For there is no journal, properly established on the tenets of true professionalism, while fully understanding the imperatives of investing in  the  national well being, that will ever contemplate such treason, as has been the track record of this noxious publishing house.


Clearly this, another attack on the Chinese, apart from containing the dangerous elements of xenophobia, is ingratitude to a nation that has added very, very significantly to Guyana’s economic development in ways too numerous to mention. So much has this nation and its people continue to benefit from the generousity of the Chinese people that no amount of commendations can suffice.

As an aside, OBSERVER has noted that the very opposition party, the People’s National Congress(PNC) that had been the government of the day, when Guyana established diplomatic relations with China  in 1972, and had voted overwhelmingly with the United Nations  General Assembly  at that time, ensuring  that this Asian giant finally  be accorded its rightful seat as a member, now leads the anti-Chinese assault.  Is this not the greatest of contradictions? As for the greatest misinformant ever in the annals of Caribbean media publishing - its epitaph will be etched as follows:  HERE RESTS THE GREATEST OF PRINT LIARS, WHICH DEEDS CLOSED ITS PAGES!
http://guyanachronicle.com/kai...-and-misinformation/

FM

The above is pure sententious bull.

 

The Chinese are pillaging our forests and the Kaiteurnews has been instrumental in highlighting this pillage. We are not getting anything for all of that destruction. The projected paltry 16 million per year is;  and let me reiterate, less than the Chinese get for renting their pandas in the US. It is a mystery to any that this PPP can call 16 million a great benefit to us

 

The history of the Chinese logging tactics is not an invention by Kaiteurnews. It is their legacy that is well documented across the planet by every environmental group or renown. That governments bend the knees to them and political supplicants write as the above is also not unexpected. It is part of the defense of Logging Predation Syndrome.

 

The crooked government officials always complain of the great benefits one get from the logs ( never able to substantiate that vs the destruction they cause). They always attack the news agencies and activists opposing the habits of the loggers as "anti developmental" and treasonous.

 

Of course their approval agencies are always fighting most vociferously for the Chinese rather than the Chinese coming up front and telling the nation how well the managed the forest, what trees they have replanted what extraction method they use and the number of logs they extract! No they never come out and say because we can test those against the reality of their practice.

 

And of course there are the small loggers benefiting from the sale of harvesting logs. They are dependent on the Chinese so what do you expect them to do? The fact is logging has never been good on the scale the chinese do it. These loggers will always make money because they cannot exceed the demands of the local market.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Spontaneous emission:

Kaieteur News the grand media of sensationalism and misinformation



The Kaieteur News has once again demonstrated in full regalia, why it is the grand media of sensationalism , among its sister CARICOM  media houses as  it sought  once again to mislead the Guyanese public on the matter pertaining to Bai Shan Lin’s logging activities in Guyana.

This is yet another unmistakable attempt, with the political opposition’s connivance, at derailing not only government’s national socio-economic development   programmes, but also to discourage foreign investment endeavours in Guyana. It is indeed very sad that this publishing house, can so knowingly and deliberately continue to wage economic warfare and sabotage against the State in its pages, that are wholly political in nature. And as again demonstrated, once a response is given to its pedalled misinformation and lies it does not accept such a challenge, in the form of having its reporters engage the source.

For example, it has failed to respond to the Guyana Forestry Commission’s press conference. Of course it cannot, since the latter would have nailed all the ugly lies that have been appearing in its pages, for the past two weeks. As an example of its well known chronic campaign of selective reporting, it seeks to convey to the Guyanese nation that the  Chinese logging company has been chopping down our forests, and in the process exporting all the  harvested logs.

One does not need to be a political scientist to comprehend the plan behind such a journalistic strategy. What it has deliberately failed to mention is the known fact, that the company has since its arrival in Guyana, entered into many joint venture arrangements with local  loggers, and  that these  have revived the latter fortunes. If this is not high wickedness, then what else describes!

Still bent on its traditional pattern of reporting, it resorted to screaming that well known Lindener Phillip Bynoe,   threatened its staff at a recent press briefing. Given the fact that Bynoe is still considered somewhat a high-profiled personality, it is quite strange that no other media house has carried such a report.  It does beg the question as to whether this is not another attempt at misleading the public.

It is absolute that attacking any media house/ representatives should be   great cause for concern since it threatens a  very fundamental pillar of democracy; however,  OBSERVER has noted the double standard, not surprising, of this media,  on  this particular matter,  whether or  not  it did occur. It has alleged Bynoe’s act, as an “attack on the press”. Now, juxtapose this convenient accusation, with the deafeningly silent position taken with regards the combined opposition cuts to Budget 2012, 2013, and 2014, that affected  the annual  subventions  of the State media GINA  and  NCN. Have these acts not been attacks   on these entities’ rights to exist, and as a consequence their freedom to report on government’s policies?

As has been frequently reported in this media, the Kaieteur News is a unique kind, in any region,   for its unflagging, orchestrated consistency forattacking socio-economic projects that advances the livelihoods of citizens. For there is no journal, properly established on the tenets of true professionalism, while fully understanding the imperatives of investing in  the  national well being, that will ever contemplate such treason, as has been the track record of this noxious publishing house.


Clearly this, another attack on the Chinese, apart from containing the dangerous elements of xenophobia, is ingratitude to a nation that has added very, very significantly to Guyana’s economic development in ways too numerous to mention. So much has this nation and its people continue to benefit from the generousity of the Chinese people that no amount of commendations can suffice.

As an aside, OBSERVER has noted that the very opposition party, the People’s National Congress(PNC) that had been the government of the day, when Guyana established diplomatic relations with China  in 1972, and had voted overwhelmingly with the United Nations  General Assembly  at that time, ensuring  that this Asian giant finally  be accorded its rightful seat as a member, now leads the anti-Chinese assault.  Is this not the greatest of contradictions? As for the greatest misinformant ever in the annals of Caribbean media publishing - its epitaph will be etched as follows:  HERE RESTS THE GREATEST OF PRINT LIARS, WHICH DEEDS CLOSED ITS PAGES!
http://guyanachronicle.com/kai...-and-misinformation/

One cannot expect anything better from OLD KAI of the Chronicle.

This is the latest example of the Chronicle abusing Guyanese taxpayers  taxpayers' MONEY to whitewash Bai Shan Lin's ruthless exploitation of the finite rainforest and the attendant enrichment of Bai's facilitators in the corrupt PPP regime.

FM
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

 

One cannot expect anything better from OLD KAI of the Chronicle.

 

I resent the PPP use of Old Kai as their political propaganda mouth piece. It is a straight up in your face contemptuous act of disrespect against Native people. They did not use Nehru or Ghandi or any of the Hindu pantheon. They chose old kai for no other reason than they are villainous and have complete disregard for our cultural iconography.

 

Here in the us we are complaining about the name of a football team, the Redskins. The universal complaint is the name is insulting and does nothing to the acrimonious stereotypes and contempt whites had for native people. Yet the PPP and Misir et al did not learn ( the writing looks like misir bur will check).

 

They take one of the most cherished icon of Native Lucono tribal lore about courage, faith and sacrifice and made him into a political propaganda prop.  These are disgustingly insensitive racist people. I am sad the Amerind Peoples Association and other native people's groups have not demanded they desist from insulting us.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

 

One cannot expect anything better from OLD KAI of the Chronicle.

 

I resent the PPP use of Old Kai as their political propaganda mouth piece. It is a straight up in your face contemptuous act of disrespect against Native people. They did not use Nehru or Ghandi or any of the Hindu pantheon. They chose old kai for no other reason than they are villainous and have complete disregard for our cultural iconography.

 

Here in the us we are complaining about the name of a football team, the Redskins. The universal complaint is the name is insulting and does nothing to the acrimonious stereotypes and contempt whites had for native people. Yet the PPP and Misir et al did not learn ( the writing looks like misir bur will check).

 

They take one of the most cherished icon of Native Lucono tribal lore about courage, faith and sacrifice and made him into a political propaganda prop.  These are disgustingly insensitive racist people. I am sad the Amerind Peoples Association and other native people's groups have not demanded they desist from insulting us.

Storm, a skilful politician à la the late Boysie Ramkarran can make that Chronicle hack rue the day he assumed the name OLD KAI.

Rural folks in Guyana commonly use the word "kai" to refer to spirogyra, that offensive green algae that thrives on stagnant water. It has sheer nuisance value.

The Chronicle Old Kai is just stale hardened spirogyra.

FM
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

 

One cannot expect anything better from OLD KAI of the Chronicle.

 

I resent the PPP use of Old Kai as their political propaganda mouth piece. It is a straight up in your face contemptuous act of disrespect against Native people. They did not use Nehru or Ghandi or any of the Hindu pantheon. They chose old kai for no other reason than they are villainous and have complete disregard for our cultural iconography.

 

Here in the us we are complaining about the name of a football team, the Redskins. The universal complaint is the name is insulting and does nothing to the acrimonious stereotypes and contempt whites had for native people. Yet the PPP and Misir et al did not learn ( the writing looks like misir bur will check).

 

They take one of the most cherished icon of Native Lucono tribal lore about courage, faith and sacrifice and made him into a political propaganda prop.  These are disgustingly insensitive racist people. I am sad the Amerind Peoples Association and other native people's groups have not demanded they desist from insulting us.

Storm, a skilful politician à la the late Boysie Ramkarran can make that Chronicle hack rue the day he assumed the name OLD KAI.

Rural folks in Guyana commonly use the word "kai" to refer to spirogyra, that offensive green algae that thrives on stagnant water. It has sheer nuisance value.

The Chronicle Old Kai is just stale hardened spirogyra.

I am sure they are not talking about pond scum but being pond scum. They are using the name for its provenance as a martyr for his people plainly for agitprop value. Their casual use of it in this way is insensitive, racist, cruel, and completely disrespectful.

FM

Kaieteur News should desist from creating public mischief and sensationalism

 

REFERENCE is made to an article published in the Tuesday August 19, 2014 edition of Kaieteur News titled ‘Logging scandal…GFC defends delays in processing facilities…’ in which your newspaper pointed to questions asked during a press conference hosted by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) and the latter’s referral of such queries to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). The newspaper also carried a follow up report in the Thursday August 21, 2014 edition of the newspaper titled ‘Who granted those multi-million $$$ duty free concessions to Bai Shan Lin?’ In the subsequent article, the issue is referenced yet again as though there is some mystery as to the process despite GRA’s previous outline of the process through which concessions are granted, which ironically the newspaper noted in the said article (paragraphs 4, 5 and 6).

As such, based on these continuous queries by the newspaper on the same matter and for further clarification, the GRA wishes to make it clear that:

1. Duty-free concessions are only granted by the GRA if they were first approved by the relevant regulatory entities/bodies, approvals of which are then forwarded to the Revenue Authority. The GRA is most certain that the newspaper is already aware of this and therefore its representatives had to have been mischievous to even pose such questions at the forum.
2. The granting of any specified concession is based on established laws and policies and would be granted taking into consideration the type of investment involved and, therefore, the Newspaper’s reference to the type(s) of vehicle for which any concession was granted was most likely also malicious and reflects a complete misunderstanding of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) followed in the granting of concessions.
3. The GRA will not be providing any further comments on this matter since the Tax Act includes Provisions for such information to be deemed strictly privileged and confidential.

The GRA therefore advises the Kaieteur News to desist from creating unnecessary public mischief and sensationalism and hopes that the newspaper will venture to do proper and thorough research in future, especially prior to publishing articles of such nature.
KHURSHID SATTAUR
Commissioner-General

FM

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