Stabroek News’ local gov’t campaign unethical – PPP

Clement Rohee

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has denounced Stabroek News’s ongoing campaign for local government elections (LGE), saying it is unethical.

At the PPP’s weekly press briefing, held at Freedom House yesterday, party General Secretary Clement Rohee stated that the front page slogans carried daily by the newspaper calling for the PPP/C administration to hold the elections are akin to “pursuing a hard-line political agenda against the government.”

He also accused the newspaper of not publishing the PPP’s various concerns about the holding of the polls, which have not been held since 1994. Under the constitution, the polls are to