Dear Editor,
My career as an illustrator depends upon having a good working understanding of body language when it comes to expressions, human and other animals. Take a second look at Minister of State Joseph Harmon on the front page of last Sunday’s Kaieteur News in the company of the Baishanlins. If I were the photographer, he would have had to give me a collaborative smile, raise his posture, remove his dark shades and express elation, or was he aware, I hope so, that he was entangled by the entrapments, snares and such methods used in commerce with China, by the Chinese, that Glen Lall of Kaieteur News had written about some time ago.
China conducts business in the spirit of the ‘Art of War’ to methods they helped the Koreans develop in that 1950’s conflict. If you are not honed by mechanisms and an opposing character of your own, then you will be found wanting. I am already seeing publications that hint to the administration addressing the depressive situation of the Minister of State. We out here are paranoid over any indication of PPP-type conduct, bringing me to the point of what is the volume of the compromise enacted by Baishanlin over the much more simplistic PPP.
To the friends of Mr. Harmon, I and many others have spent the better of the last 22 years refuting lies published through the media, using our media space, you don’t picket the Kaieteur News because they published a picture you don’t like. If it’s libel, then sue. If not, compete as I’m doing now.
Yours faithfully,
Barrington Braithwaite
