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By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Only days ago I had cause and occasion to express concerns about the abuse of press freedom in Guyana. In that article, I observed that “[a] free press is one of the main foundations of a democratic society. Those who don’t have it, long for it. Many have died for it. Yet, some who ...

The United States’ 2015 Human Rights Report has cited Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo’s directive to the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper that all headlines must first get his office’s green-light. ‘In August the prime minister issued a directive that all headlines in the state-owned print media be first scrutinized and approved by his office before they are published. The directive was ...