Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Chronicle Keith Burrowes is defending the newspaper’s publication of a letter sympathetic to the views expressed in its July 2, 2012 editorial, which was branded “racist” and “inflammatory.”
Burrowes told Stabroek News that unless a letter is libellous, it is unlikely that the newspaper would choose not to publish it.
The letter, which appeared in the July 11, 2012 edition of the Guyana Chronicle, was written by Jason Abdulla and it endorsed many of the sentiments in the editorial which had been written by Parvati Persaud-Edwards. The editorial has been condemned by several segments of society,
