Prominent businessman and owner of BK International, Brian Tiwarie, is planning to open his own newspaper company here and has started the process.
Reliable sources told Stabroek News that Tiwarie is currently out of the country sourcing a printing press for the company.
Groundwork here is already on the way and the former head of a media outlet has been identified to lead the project.
Tiwarie has been the subject of much controversy over the years and has had ties to both administrations, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic and the ruling A Partnership for National Unity-Alliance For Change.
When APNU+AFC was elected last year Tiwarie began featuring in the limelight again but alongside Minister of State Joseph Harmon
He was appointed by Harmon as his honorary advisor but within a day of that appointment being made public, President David Granger rescinded it, saying that his services were not needed.
At that time, both Harmon and Tiwarie were in China. Tiwarie has since said that although they travelled together, his recent private business trip to China merely coincided with Harmon’s official visit while Harmon maintains that he has nothing else to discuss about that trip.
