(Trinidad Guardian) Disrespectful, unfortunate, irresponsible. These were the responses of members of the media community to Opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds’ reference to the media as vultures. Hinds, last Saturday, said the media displayed “vulturistic behaviour” as journalists sought an interview with Cheryl Miller after she was released from the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital.
Miller was removed from her workplace at the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development 16 days ago and detained at the hospital after a confrontation with a senior employee. She was released last Friday after High Court Judge Vasheist Kokaram granted her a week’s leave from the hospital.
Miller, a Seventh-Day Adventist, could not go to church on Saturday because the media were encamped outside her house for hours, Hinds said in a radio interview yesterday. In an angry outburst, he called the media vultures, a newspaper yesterday reported.