Chronicle dismisses Sunday Editor
The state-owned Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL), publishers of the Guyana Chronicle yesterday dismissed its Sunday Editor, Neil Marks.
In a statement, GNNL said that while this decision is regretted, Management, as guided by the Board of Directors, found it necessary in order to protect the newspaper.
“Despite the obligations and responsibilities assigned to him in a senior position, Mr. Marks’ actions on more than one occasion seriously compromised the production of the newspaper. It is imperative that GNNL, at all times, guard against the impairing of the critical service it provides as a public service media house.
“Additionally, a dedicated team of persons work beyond the call of duty to ensure the Guyana Chronicle is on the newsstand every morning. It is untenable that their work and that service are jeopardised by the actions of one individual in a senior position”, GNNL said. Marks declined to comment when contacted by Stabroek News yesterday.
GNNL said that Editor-in-Chief Mr. Nigel Williams will oversee the editorial responsibilities for the Sunday edition until a substantive Sunday editor is named. GNNL wished Marks well in his future endeavours. Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday rejected suggestions of impropriety in his role as a Director of HDI, the company which originally spearheaded the D’Urban Park Development Project (DPDP).
Speaking before the continuation of the debate on the 2017 Budget, Roopnaraine provided a personal explanation in which he said that as far as he is aware none of the individuals involved in the project before its April turnover to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) received remuneration of any kind instead they made patriotic contributions.
“I find it personally distressing that we have failed to appreciate the enthusiasm and energies of those involved; instead greed and malice has been associated with their patriotic contributions,” he told the house while stressing his own record of political activism and determination to protect same.
“In over forty years of political activism, striving to achieve a better Guyana, I have never hidden behind anyone. In over forty years of political activism, I have never engaged in any act giving off even a whiff of malfeasance and I deeply resent any whisperings or hints in the media to that effect. I promise this august assembly that I will not sit idly by and suffer in silence if I am now accused by anyone of such acts,” the Minister declared.
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party last month named Roopnaraine as a Director of Homestretch Development Incorporated (HDI) the company which funded and managed the DPDP in its first phases.
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