Dear Editor,
Several journalists were chewing the cud while the President of Guyana was speaking at the most recent press conference at the Presidential Secretariat. As a teacher, I demand that my students empty their mouths of chewing gum during my lessons. I see chewing in public as a very bad and distasteful – no pun intended – habit. And I believe that this habit, from the nation’s top journalists, was unprofessional to say the least.
To be chewing gum (I assume it was gum they were chewing) in the presence of the President does not reflect the high standards demanded from our journalists – anywhere in the world. And I would have simply asked them to leave.
Yours faithfully,
Leon Suseran
