PPP opposed SN ads boycott but was ignored by gov’t – Ramkarran

Ralph Ramkarran

PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran today said that the PPP had opposed the cut-off of state advertisements to Stabroek News in 2006 but was ignored by the government of former President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Ramkarran’s statement in a letter to Stabroek News to be published in tomorrow’s edition of the newspaper was the first time that an executive of the party has publicly discussed the PPP’s position on the matter.

His letter was in response to the editorial in today’s edition of Stabroek News which said that the matter of the Jagdeo administration’s axing of ads to SN in 2006 “was a trifling matter for all in the PPP and its government except for the late, former President, Mrs Janet Jagan who called clearly for