Justice (rtd) Donald Trotman, who is leading the Commission of Inquiry into the 2008 Lindo Creek killings, on Thursday reprimanded the Guyana Times and its affiliate news site Inews for inaccurate reporting of the inquiry’s public hearings, while stating that he needed to “preserve the continuing integrity” of the commission.
Trotman, specifically referring to an article published by the entities on Wednesday documenting the testimony of retired police commissioner Seelall Persaud, called for those responsible for the reporting to publish a correction before the next hearing.
“What I want to do is to advise at this time these erring and errant reporters to take stock of their own professional integrity, to be reminded and to remind themselves that they belong to an honourable profession—as honourable as the profession to which I belong—and to uphold its principles and its morals as best as they could, regardless of who tells them to do otherwise,” Trotman said.
