Media freedom is by no means the first issue that would have arisen in the minds of Guyanese with the advent of the WikkiLeaks phenomenon. Issues of secrecy, confidentiality and the public’s right to know would have been matters of much greater concern for the United States government, its media houses and its security institutions.
The Obama administration in Washington would have been chastened and more than a trifle embarrassed by the fact that the confidentiality of hundreds of thousands of its diplomatic cables, tools which, to a greater or lesser extent, help to fashion its foreign policy, had found their way into the public domain. The medium of communication
