“No comment” was the brusque response from Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo when asked last week whether his stance on the state media had changed.
Nagamootoo’s recent position on state-owned media appears to be a retreat from previous postures by him as well as APNU and the AFC and when approached by Stabroek News at the Public Buildings last week, when the question was put to him, the Prime Minister said “no comment” before walking away.
Nagamootoo last month generated concern about possible government interference in the state media when he told reporters at the Public Buildings that he was “surprised and disappointed” by a headline which appeared in the Chronicle. Nagamootoo spoke with the reporter who wrote the article and subsequently said the Chronicle “is a