Dear Editor,
When I call on the phone to speak to the editor of the Kaieteur News, in spite of his heavy workload he will spare me a minute. Once I called Dr Yesu Persaud, who is quite a busy man, yet he spared me a minute. I called the editor of Chronicle and he spared me a minute; I called the editor of the Catholic Standard and he too will listen to me for 60 seconds. However, in the case of the Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News it is a different story; the person who answers the phone at Stabroek will tell me the Editor-in-Chief is busy and I can’t speak to him.
The last occasion I called Stabroek – December 6 – and asked to speak to the Editor-in-Chief and explained why I wanted to speak to him, the woman to whom I spoke gave me the same busy line. What the Stabroek people must understand is that the people who are important enough to speak to the editor are few, and they alone cannot sustain the newspaper. It is the ordinary, less important people that keep Stabroek afloat, so the Editor-in-Chief must find some time to speak when called on the phone even though he considers them insignificant.
Yours faithfully
WP George
