President at no time sought to discredit commodity sectors in ‘curses’ reference – MoTP

The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) says that President David Granger at no time sought to discredit achievements in six commodity sectors here which he had told a New York diaspora gathering constituted “the curse of the six sisters”.

In a statement issued just after midnight yesterday, MoTP was responding to a letter by commentator Christopher Ram in the October 1st Sunday Stabroek entitled  `What are the real curses’. Ram’s views were also utilised in a news item in the October 2nd Stabroek News headlined `Ram pillories President over `six sisters’ remark, diaspora `brains’’.

MoTP charged that Granger’s remarks at the Diaspora Meet and Greet on September 23 have been skewed in Ram’s letter and do not in any way represent the points the President highlighted at the event in New York.