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Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Kwame McCoy last evening issued a statement in which he said that former Jamaican Information Minister Robert Nesta Morgan had complained to him about a news item in yesterday’s Stabroek News about Guyana’s press freedom rating.
The news item was headlined `Press freedom rankings can be improved with more government transparency – says Jamaica minister’ and was based on the minister’s answer to a question from Stabroek News on how this country’s press freedom rating can be improved.
In his statement, McCoy said that Morgan released a statement that said that “At no point did I make a specific statement regarding Guyana… I find the story lacking context and wrong and it should be withdrawn. It essentially uses my speech to create a narrative I never said”.