Dear Editor,
Beware! There is a brotherhood out there. They emerged in 1992 since the soil was made fertile for democracy to flourish in Guyana.
They know themselves; they’re even proud to name themselves in letter columns, hide behind newspaper editorials and take the form of ghost writers.
In the absence of democracy, as was the case prior to 1992, these species wither and fade away. In some cases they try to hide their cloven hooves and disappear into the woods only to emerge once again with ever sharper fangs.
This brotherhood infests the media in general and a certain section of the print and electronic media in particular.
The media is their den from whence they emerge to prowl for juicy issues on which they pounce with vengeance, their principal targets being those who walk the corridors of power. The incident at Better Hope as well as a newspaper report on torture versus bread and butter issues are cases in point.
Characteristic of the big bad wolf in the Red Riding Hood story, they pretend to be defenders of democracy, the rule of law, morality and paragons of virtue when in fact they themselves have many skeletons in their cupboards. They harbour delusions of a return to the days when they will be free, once again, to cavort with lawlessness, depravity, corruption and all that is associated with a failed state.
And donning the hood as so called “watchdog of the public’s interest”, the brotherhood pretends to be sympathetic with issues that impact people’s lives.
Strangely, however when horrific incidents such as, criminal attacks on the congregation at churches, the murder of a farmer by bandits the result of a robbery under arms, attacks on fishermen by pirates, the rape of a young girl at Buckhall, buggery of young boys by a businessman in Georgetown and the robbery and beating of an entire East Coast family by bandits, we never hear a beep from the same brotherhood who claim to be “on watch for the Guyanese people”.
Nay, such is not of their interest, rather it is those who stormed the “PNC’s Bastille” in 1992 clamouring; “Time for change, Time to rebuild!” that is of interest to them.
The truth is that brotherhood is constantly fashioning a political agenda aimed at attacking the PPP/C govern-ment and rubbishing its policies.
Yours faithfully,
Clement J Rohee
