The Guyana Press Association (GPA) has condemned comments directed to the media by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, this time with regard to his suggestion that a journalist was paid to publish a story discrediting the qualifications of PPP Presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali.
“During a public meeting on Saturday 13th April, 2019 in New York, in response to a question about Ali’s qualifications, Jagdeo said that, `this whole thing about credibility and qualifications etc, it was started by one, newspapers, not a newspaper person, a person who was paid’”, the GPA recalled Jagdeo as saying, adding that his comments could only be directed at journalist, Julia Johnson, who first reported the story in January.
It added that the Opposition Leader had also singled Johnson out at one of his press conferences a few months ago, while responding to questions on the subject.
