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GECOM AND JAGDEO By Verian Mentis-Barker
GECOM AND JAGDEO – POSTED BY: VERIAN MENTIS-BARKER – OCTOBER 29, 2017
Jagdeo- Patterson – Granger
At the nucleus of the furor over the ‘unilateral’ selection of James Patterson to head Guyana Elections Commission, GECOM, is an emboldened Bharat Jagdeo, an infamous vestige of the ethnic nationalism he piloted during the twenty three years he pretended to govern a country of six races with an even hand, while subverting the very constitution he now defends with the impostures of faux patriotism.
That he continues to portray the part of Political Messiah, is the causal effect of the Coalition Administration’s Communications Team still operating at levels of inaudibility.
One would expect that Communications is actually the profession of this Team and since it should be, a subject like Jagdeo, whose pledged raison d’etre is to “keep the government on its toes…hold them accountable”, should not enjoy the exemption of news coverage that he does by these professionals hired to communicate on the government’s behalf, while Opposition Media spotlights the Government with ill intent; especially since he just oozes news . READ MORE
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