Attorney General’s threat against Kaieteur News…Guyana Press Association expresses alarm

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) is alarmed at statements purportedly those of the Attorney General Anil Nandlall contained in a recorded conversation released by Kaieteur News.
The recording, released yesterday, suggests that the Attorney General is aware of a sinister plot against Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall. As a result, he advises a senior reporter to leave the organization as soon as possible, because it would be sooner rather than later that men with “weapons” would walk into the newspaper offices, which also house its press.
In the recording, the Attorney General also suggests that because of the newspaper’s reporting on members of his family, he will “war” against Kaieteur News, because he is of the ancient Indian “Chatree” class.
The GPA expressed shock that these reckless, irresponsible and outrageous statements could be made by the sitting Attorney General of Guyana
It is now calling on the Government of Guyana to condemn the AG’s remarks. As an Attorney the AG should know that “the licence to practise law is not a licence to break it”.
The GPA wants the Guyana Police Force to thoroughly investigate the complaints made by Kaieteur News’ Glenn Lall regarding threats to his life, his family and the staff of the Kaieteur News.
The Guyana Press Association said that it is expressing its solidarity with Kaieteur News and all media workers. It is also urging them to remain vigilant.
Journalists in Guyana should be free to practise their profession in an environment free of fear, intimidation and threats, the GPA stated.

Reverse and Fookeetutu lickin each other right now dem aint gat time wid you cain.

Oh,Ok, I won't bother them.

Even the Guyana Press Association is alarmed. Many more Organisations are

concerned about the PPP/C lawlessness.

Only the corrupt PPP/C dont care a hang of  what happens

Cain 

Let me give you my honest to god opinion on this matter.

Anil, acted immature and ruined his chances of running as President in the future.

This was a private conversation and many things are said in bad taste during some private conversations. Anil expressed a lapse in judgement and should have acted in a more professional manner given his position.

Is an apology due ? Yes

Should he resign ? Not yet.

Not resign, fired!

Nandalall and by extension the PPP's days are numbered.

Was Nandalla soliciting sex for someone? Ofcourse we know that he was like a pimp in sending Welshman to Ms Manickchand

QUOTE "I use some money from the government and glen mek and issue of it I pay back deh ****ing money long before he even mek de issue and he know about it because wha it pay fuh UNQUOTE

i WONDER WHAT IT WAS USED FOR? i THINK THAT THERE RUMOR ON THE ROAD THAT MENTION ABOUT SOME ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

Bravo, GPA. Anal Nandalall crossed the red line. He knew what he said. He wasn't speaking through his anal.

Cross the line is one thing. The Attorney general on tape admitted to defrauding tax payers and resolving the matter by paying back de money.

WTF is that?

You doan understan, you not suppose to catch the man. I hear it illegal fo ketch an' hear him say dat on tape den admit it.

These PPP thiefman dem have their own interpretations of what is legal and illegal. It is like reasoning with a goat to explain why his shit is round.

Maybe DG would know the answer, he know lotsa stuff.

Oi DG, HMR got a question about why goat shit roung?

Perhaps, Perhaps not.

Attorney General’s threat against Kaieteur News…Guyana Press Association expresses alarm

Quote "According to Burch-Smith, it is high time that the Attorney General or his employers come out and clarify the expletive-laden statements which speak to violence against the Kaieteur News and its staff, an attack on the freedom of the press, misuse of public funds by a public official as well as his loose comments against women, specifically a reporter employed at the Kaieteur News.

According to Burch-Smith, the contents of the recording are disturbing and disappointing and need clarification on the part of Nandlall, and or his employers.

There are a number of legal issues that need to be addressed, according to Burch-Smith, who reminded that the GBA will, following consultations with its hierarchy, issue a public statement on the matter" unquote

AG: who, who is the other staff, some nice girl dem sen

LG: man me cant give you the name man oww

AG: De man wan **** de girl man, the man tell me seriously he wan knock de girl

LG: how he gun **** de girl

AG: no but still chief (inaudible) de man say he wan knock de ting, you can arrange

How can an AG behave like this, I doubt would wether he would like that someone refer to his wife or female family  like this.........where are the women in Guyana.

AG- Admits stealing tax payers money to impregnate his wife and then paying back the money but he is still on the job.

This is the man who is supposed to be upholding the laws of the land. But we know these chaps have no interest in the law, the Ashni Singh drunk driving case is a classic example of Anil's penchant for illegality.

Ramotar’s support for Nandlall promotes Gov’t secrecy and lack of transparency – GHRA

The following is the full text of a statement from the Executive Committee of the Guyana Human Rights Association.
“The tirade of threats, coarse language, suggestions of misuse of public funds and anti-women comments by Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, during a recent telephone call to a Kaieteur News reporter, has generated public astonishment and calls for his resignation.
Almost as shocking as the incident itself, however, is the hapless defense of Nandlall by President Ramotar on the flimsy grounds that the taping of the conversation was illegal.
The failure of the President to distance the Cabinet and himself from the content of the call has effectively elevated Nandlall’s action from a personal rant to being the latest step in the increasingly desperate official response to the campaign by Kaieteur News for greater official transparency on public funds involved in a range of controversial projects.
These include the secretive government agency NICIL, ownership of the Marriott Hotel, the privileges enjoyed by the companies which benefitted from the Sanata Complex give-away; telecommunications deals and the Bai Shan Lin contract.
Efforts by Government to resist providing Parliament and the public with this information have spiralled downwards over the years. Along the way, secrecy and lack of transparency has taken its toll on a number of Government mechanisms.
These include the politically-poisoned implementation of broadcast license distribution; years of foot-dragging over establishing the Procurement Commission; appointing a Commissioner of Information who views his role more as guard-dog than gatekeeper, together with comprehensive and continuous abuse of the State-owned media.
This obsessive control of information has provoked more confrontational demands from a frustrated media, which in turn generated Government responses targetting media workers in the form of libel suits and the intervention of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
It was Kaieteur News’s retaliation to the GRA action, in questioning whether one of the relatives of the Attorney-General should not also be the focus of a similar investigation that appears to have prompted the ill-tempered telephone call.
Whether Mr. Nandlall is forced to resign or not – and the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) believes that resignation is in order – this alone will not resolve the underlying issue. At bottom this latest incident, with all its demeaning characteristics, is rooted in systematic abuse of a core element of democratic practice, namely, not accounting for the use of public funds in a transparent manner. The more fundamental question, therefore, is whether, regardless of the cost to governance and to the quality of public life, the Government intends continued resistance to provision of timely and accurate information on its stewardship of public funds.”

Startling revelations in recording…Mr. Nandlall has been caught with his pants down – AFC’s Moses Nagamootoo

The disturbing revelations by Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall, in a recorded conversation with a senior reporter

Moses Nagamootoo, AFC Vice Chairman

of the Kaieteur News, Leonard Gildarie, of a plot to launch a brutal attack on the newspaper’s publisher, Glenn Lall and his employees, have without a doubt unmasked the extent of Mr. Nandlall’s terrorist tactics.
This is the view of Vice Chairman of the Alliance For Change, Moses Nagamootoo.
An experienced journalist and parliamentarian, Nagamootoo opined that to add insult to injury, after the Attorney General admitted to having the conversation with the reporter, President Donald Ramotar came out in support of the government’s “blue-eyed boy”.
“It is a sorry day for Guyana that the President of the Republic, Donald Ramotar, could sanction such madness, and sought to protect an integrity that Anil Nandlall himself has shattered with vulgar expletives,” Nagamootoo lamented.
The parliamentarian asserted that he was particularly disturbed that Nandlall could “flippantly induce a reporter to get out while he can” and be a part of a secret consortium of the highest breed of reporters. Nandlall termed it to be “an elitist press team”.
The AFC Vice Chairman said that the AG used terrorist tactics of an imminent attack on the Kaieteur News in his bid to buy the reporter to leave what he saw as “a dangerous place”.
Nagamootoo emphasized as well that Nandlall during his 19-minute long conversation with the reporter did not request that his comments be treated as “off the record”. “In light of such negligence, the learned AG could claim no privacy or privilege,” Nagamootoo asserted.
“Mr. Nandlall has been caught with his pants down and, sadly, he has become a discredited Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs. He should call it a day, before he drags the PPP deeper into the cesspit.”
In addition, the AFC Parliamentarian said that the Minister was obsessed over a female reporter and was clearly

Anil Nandlall,
Attorney General

“trying to pimp for a third person,” whom he portrayed as a rich “bad-man”.
More disgusting, Nagamootoo said, is Nandlall’s admission that he had accessed and used government’s money for a personal purpose, which he claimed that he has since repaid.
The country’s largest Opposition bloc, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), said recently that they will be investigating this “callous betrayal and unfair misuse of state funds.”
Nagamootoo gave support for such action by APNU as he stated that eyebrows should be raised as to whether, as a senior state functionary, the AG was entitled to such funds. He emphasized that an investigation into that transaction ought to take place now.
He added, “When I read the transcript of the interview, it looked like a hoary chapter from “Murder She Wrote”. Nandlall’s depiction of an attack on Kaieteur News ought to have sent chills up the spine of even the most courageous reporter and press worker. I could only imagine big weapons, shooting up Glenn Lall and his staff, in a violent, bloody, orgy.
Nandlall, caricatured the hari-kiri, as that of “Peter paying fuh Paul” which would ensue when vengeful, unknown persons train their weapons at the Saffon Street press.”
“Mr. Nandlall is obviously intoxicated with power, or else he would have realized that innocent persons would be killed. But in an apocalyptical manner, he dismissed the blood-bath as inevitable.”
Since the damning recording, the Publisher of the Kaieteur News lodged a formal complaint with the Guyana Police Force.
The pressure for Nandlall to demit office immediately continues to increase from the citizenry as well as the joint political Opposition.