Guyanese have only to go back to the bad old days of the regime of the late and not widely lamented Forbes Burnham to realise that Caribbean leaders are loath to intervene in what they perceive to be the internal affairs of other countries, however significantly those affairs run counter to the democracy in which they all claim to believe.
We refer, in this particular instance, to silence coming from the leaders of regional governments, even as Guyana's Stabroek News continues to be hurt by the PPP/C government's advertising boycott over the last 16 months and which, far from coming to a welcome end, has in fact been deepened.
As we have stated, the boycott has been ongoing but two recent examples demonstrate the undemocratic determination of Mr Bharrat Jagdeo's increasingly embattled regime. Instead of the government seeking the widest dissemination of advertisements of two of its own declared important projects, it has taken good care to ensure that the paper has not been included in the advertising to do with its citizens' security programme and the conservancy adaptation programmes.
In the past, the government has sought to excuse the placing of its advertisements only in the Kaieteur News and the Guyana Chronicle on what it claims to be those two publications' higher circulations, but it stands to reason that with respect to, for example, citizens' security, if the army and police are looking for recruits nationwide, they would be expected to place ads in all the newspapers.
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