In the midst of what appears to be a major financial crisis in Guyana, which has Opposition leaders, Robert Corbin (PNCR) and Raphael Trotman (AFC) calling for the resignation of Guyana's Minister of Finance, Ashni Singh, and the Commissioner of Insurance, Maria van Beek, the Guyana Police Force is investigating two false stories carried by Living Guyana bloggers today.
Now on the plus side, this is definitely an indication that bloggers in Guyana are being taken seriously, and as a result should behave like any responsible media and check sources carefully and so forth. To their credit, they did the right thing and retracted the stories once they discovered they were false.
On the negative side, Living Guyana (as I said somewhere on this blog last year) has become a largely credible place for giving us the stories other media in Guyana seem reluctant to carry. So this investigation, which for the moment has quieted their voices over there, seems to me an attempt to keep the fallout stories from this financial crisis out of view. This investigation is rather suspicious to me. Highly suspicious.
