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I lived in Guyana until 2002. Capitol News and Channel 9 are not saints.

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Originally posted by Ireton:
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Guyanese woman: At home, we’re dealing with the issue of victimization as a people, as a black people, then coming to Antigua, we are dealing with victimization as a nation.“


The Antiguan government has been praised by the Guyana authorities for providing jobs and a new way of life for many Guyanese nationals. However, many still believe that when it comes to free movement in the Caribbean community, Guyanese are still at the losing end. In St John’s Antigua, Gordon Moseley for Capitol News.”

Yours faithfully,
Gordon Moseley
Senior Reporter/
Producer
Capitol News

Taken from Living guyana blog without permission.

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Originally posted by Communicator:
I challenge Dr. Premium Miserable and latest GNI forum member Adanna and any other PPP misfit who can't read and comprehend to pick any three statements from that letter above and show how they rise to the level of disparaging and disrespecting the President.

They ban Moseley for not supporting their story to the public. It's called dictatorship: play our way or you don't play at all.

How can this inspire Guyanese in the Diaspora to resign their overseas jobs, give up their friends and go back to Guyana? Nobody wants to go back and live under conditions they ran from under Burnham.

Baby Kong is running around with his diaper loaded with years old doo-doo and pee-pee-pee. There is no Guyanese who can change him because he likes smelling stink and thinks that when people talk about him it is a sign of power.

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The Communicator, a true and newborn creature from living Guyana and the propaganda press blogs. As a journalist, you don't just refer to a person as uninformed, wild, etc.; you need to show how this is so. For regular type of interactions, Moseley will get away with it; but he claims he is a journalist; so let him be true to his profession - show the evidence and not dwell on empty rhetorical statements on the Head of State. That statement is not only disrespectful, but disparaging to any Head of State; journalists have to do more than ordinary people in conversations. Statements need to be evidentiary-based and verifiable. Incidentally, this is how Capitol News' newscasts are - the newscasts are editorials; many accusatory statements without evidence. This accusatory line has to have a backup type of evidence.

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Originally posted by adanna:

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Originally posted by Communicator:
I challenge Dr. Premium Miserable and latest GNI forum member Adanna and any other PPP misfit who can't read and comprehend to pick any three statements from that letter above and show how they rise to the level of disparaging and disrespecting the President.

They ban Moseley for not supporting their story to the public. It's called dictatorship: play our way or you don't play at all.

How can this inspire Guyanese in the Diaspora to resign their overseas jobs, give up their friends and go back to Guyana? Nobody wants to go back and live under conditions they ran from under Burnham.

Baby Kong is running around with his diaper loaded with years old doo-doo and pee-pee-pee. There is no Guyanese who can change him because he likes smelling stink and thinks that when people talk about him it is a sign of power.

The Communicator, a true and newborn creature from living Guyana and the propaganda press blogs. As a journalist, you don't just refer to a person as uninformed, wild, etc.; you need to show how this is so. For regular type of interactions, Moseley will get away with it; but he claims he is a journalist; so let him be true to his profession - show the evidence and not dwell on empty rhetorical statements on the Head of State. That statement is not only disrespectful, but disparaging to any Head of State; journalists have to do more than ordinary people in conversations. Statements need to be evidentiary-based and verifiable. Incidentally, this is how Capitol News' newscasts are - the newscasts are editorials; many accusatory statements without evidence. This accusatory line has to have a backup type of evidence.

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Originally posted by TK:
However, I would not have banned Moseley because unwittingly Mr. Moseley is part of a broad mechanism to get the PPP to keep bungling. Jagdeo is playing very well into the plan. This issue, the Sharma issue, the Stabroek News ads ban, the radio station control, etc, will ultimately make the PPP the bad guy. Keep playing right into the plan smart man, Mr. President.

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Originally posted by Communicator:

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Originally posted by adanna:

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Originally posted by Communicator:
I challenge Dr. Premium Miserable and latest GNI forum member Adanna and any other PPP misfit who can't read and comprehend to pick any three statements from that letter above and show how they rise to the level of disparaging and disrespecting the President.

They ban Moseley for not supporting their story to the public. It's called dictatorship: play our way or you don't play at all.

How can this inspire Guyanese in the Diaspora to resign their overseas jobs, give up their friends and go back to Guyana? Nobody wants to go back and live under conditions they ran from under Burnham.

Baby Kong is running around with his diaper loaded with years old doo-doo and pee-pee-pee. There is no Guyanese who can change him because he likes smelling stink and thinks that when people talk about him it is a sign of power.

The Communicator, a true and newborn creature from living Guyana and the propaganda press blogs. As a journalist, you don't just refer to a person as uninformed, wild, etc.; you need to show how this is so. For regular type of interactions, Moseley will get away with it; but he claims he is a journalist; so let him be true to his profession - show the evidence and not dwell on empty rhetorical statements on the Head of State. That statement is not only disrespectful, but disparaging to any Head of State; journalists have to do more than ordinary people in conversations. Statements need to be evidentiary-based and verifiable. Incidentally, this is how Capitol News' newscasts are - the newscasts are editorials; many accusatory statements without evidence. This accusatory line has to have a backup type of evidence.

Adanna,

You empty headed little imbecile. Where are the three points in Moseley's letter that disrespected or disparaged Baby Kong? Saying the President is uninformed and wild needs no hard evidence. It is right before the eyes of the entire nation. Just like evidence is there that he is immature, vindictive, small-minded, visionless, insecure and wasting time.

Look, where does the PPP find people like you to come on a forum like this and make empty headed posts? The space between your ears is so huge we could park a deadbeat government headed by a deadbeat dictator. Grow something...weeds, bushes, trees, garbage, anything in that vacant lot of yours.

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Originally posted by Ken:
The Antiguans said that blacks from Guyana go to their country and commit crimes.

Jagdeo trying to tell them that the Guyanese blacks are hard working. They don't want you black people in their country.

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Originally posted by adanna:
Statements need to be evidentiary-based and verifiable. Incidentally, this is how Capitol News' newscasts are - the newscasts are editorials; many accusatory statements without evidence. This accusatory line has to have a backup type of evidence.

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Originally posted by caribj:

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Originally posted by Ken:
The Antiguans said that blacks from Guyana go to their country and commit crimes.

Jagdeo trying to tell them that the Guyanese blacks are hard working. They don't want you black people in their country.

Note that there are few IndoGuyanese in Antigua. Clearly they dont wantthem there. In fcat a previous PM, Lester Bird, seeing how Indians behaved towards blacks made sure that he wasnt going to allow them into Antigua.

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I am not surprised at your empty-headedness as shown in your response because that is how the propaganda press and living guyana blog people operate; and you are newborn creature from those blogs. If you do not know, whoever posted Moseley's letter, seems to have edited out some crucial parts to suit their own ends. Why do you not go to the original letter? Continue your Prep B reading to develop some skills.

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Originally posted by Ireton:
Dear editor,

Having just watched a nationally aired press conference on NCN hosted by President Bharrat Jagdeo at the conclusion of the Caricom Summit in Antigua, I feel the need to set the record straight as it relates to Capitol News’ coverage of the Caricom meeting and our reports on that meeting.

During the press conference – which I missed due to my travel arrangements – when asked about a meeting with Guyanese living in Antigua, President Bharrat Jagdeo in his usual ‘attack the media’ style named me as a hostile reporter who was hostile to the Guyana government, telling the regional media that I attended the meeting and based on what he heard, I filed a negative report amidst all the “positive things” at the meeting.

Now, I am not quite sure what the President sees as positive or negative or what measuring cup he uses to distinguish the two.

But, I am truly fed up with the President and his office’s constant attacks on the private media, especially Capitol News. I am no politician, so I would not usually respond to his wild and uninformed ramblings about the media, but for the sake of my good name and that of the company that I have been employed with for the past decade, I think I have a responsibility to set the record straight.

I did attend the meeting with the President and the Guyanese community in Antigua and I reported what took place. I reported on what some of the audience members said and what the President said. The President obviously took offence at me including in my story, the concerns of some of the persons who raised the issue of victimization here in Guyana and in Antigua and concerns about the crime problem. I reported some of the issues raised.

If the President wanted a band-aid propaganda excuse of a news item, then he should have paid the way to ensure a team from the state-owned NCN be there in Antigua rather than to have its Editor in Chief acting as cameraman and reporter for both NCN and GINA. Capitol News had a three-member team covering the Caricom Summit and we do not receive a ‘taxpayer funded subvention’ or duty free access for equipment.

The private sector has been ‘good’ to us because we are credible, balanced, fair and objective.

I do not know what is the obsession of the President’s office with Capitol News and its reports. A few months ago, a similar attack was levelled against me and Capitol News in the newspapers, once again with unsubstantiated claims. When we cleared the air on the facts and what was reported, they all went dumb as I expect they will do this time.

Mr President, I would encourage you, that before you make wild statements about this reporter and the reports aired on our news programme, you take the time to look at those reports and not rely on the advice of your PR machinery.

For your benefit and that of the Guyanese people, I have attached below, a verbatim copy of my complete report on the Guyanese meeting in Antigua as reported on Capitol News from Antigua. Note we say hundreds and not 4,000 as GINA claims; the video is there count the participants.

President Jagdeo meets Guyanese community in Antigua

“Hundreds of Guyanese who live and work in Antigua turned up Thursday evening at a reception hall in downtown St.Johns for a community meeting with the President. The meeting went on for just over two hours and during that time, many of the Guyanese raised concerns about different problems back home and here in Antigua from land issues to immigration.”

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Guyanese woman: At home, we’re dealing with the issue of victimization as a people, as a black people, then coming to Antigua, we are dealing with victimization as a nation. How can we solve the problem? My Grand-mother taught me that charity begins at home. We will have to deal with it at home. We should be respected as a people in our homeland then I think we will be respected nationwide and worldwide.

Guyanese man: There are many Guyanese here who are 50 going over to 60, who would have worked in Guy-ana for 20 years, I am asking that we open a window that through that embassy, they could make their application to the NIS and get the pension that they are qualified for.

Guyanese woman: We all need to go home back some time, but we begging you to fix the country that we all can ship out. Then we will go back and stop all these embarrassment that we have to go through here in Antigua. I need to go home back!

President Jagdeo: Outside the elections, we have to get together, and work hard to move our country forward. We have to develop that kind of culture.

“When one man tried to raise the issue of crime, he was heckled by the large crowd. Many in the audience said Guyanese must stop giving Guyana a bad rap overseas, because that may be one of the reasons why many of them are badly treated by other Caricom nationals.”

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Guyanese man: I would like to know if it is comfortable to go back to Guyana. Guyana is where I come from.

I would like to know about the crime situation, And if these matters are being addressed. I would like to know if these matters are being addressed.

President Jagdeo: We are not the worst, we are not the worst. And they don’t say about the problems we are facing and have to face with large numbers of drug dealers and rapists and murderers who the US sent back all the time. Hundreds of them back into our society. So, how this has affected crime in many parts.

“President Jagdeo told the crowd that despite the crime problem, Guyana is seeing development. He said Guyana is not the only place where crime is an issue. He expressed confidence that the situation will improve.”

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President Jagdeo: I have confidence in our police and the security forces and over time we are going to deal with it.

“The Antiguan government has been praised by the Guyana authorities for providing jobs and a new way of life for many Guyanese nationals. However, many still believe that when it comes to free movement in the Caribbean community, Guyanese are still at the losing end. In St John’s Antigua, Gordon Moseley for Capitol News.”

Yours faithfully,
Gordon Moseley
Senior Reporter/
Producer
Capitol News

Taken from Living guyana blog without permission.