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Monday,
January 12th, 2009: When Sir Daniel
Williams was appointed Governor-General
in 1996 some people were pleased and
others were displeased with the
appointment. This is understandable; who
ever is appointed to high office would
have their admirers and detractors. He
knew this when he accepted the
appointment. The Grenada Today Newspaper
was hostile to him and wrote lies about
him which he ignored; he was expected to
ignore what the Newspaper wrote because
there is the tradition that a
Governor-General should avoid responding
to the press. Of course there is also
the tradition that the press knows that
the Governor-General is not expected to
defend himself and should act
accordingly.
While he
ignored the attacks by that Newspaper,
in his last two months in office the
attacks were vicious, malicious and
relentless. The Newspaper told lies
about him and then uses the lies as the
basis to make awful condemnatory
remarks.
The editor
grossly overstated the rent that was
paid to him. On two occasions the Office
of the Governor-General put out a
statement that the Newspaper had quoted
a much higher rent, but still the
Newspaper continued with its falsehood.
At Sir
Daniel’s request and with Her Majesty’s
consent he retired as Governor-General
on the 18th of November 2008. One would
have thought that as of that date that
Newspaper would stop telling lies about
him. On the 19th of December 2008 that
Newspaper again stated that he was paid
rent by the Government that he was never
paid. While that Editor is ranting about
the rent that was never paid to Sir
Daniel, the irony is, that the rent now
paid for the premises of the present
Governor-General is much higher than
that which was paid to Sir Daniel.
Does it
mean that once someone attains high
office and certain persons hate that
person, they are at liberty to harass
that person throughout that person’s
life? The Editor had referred to the
Accountant General’s Department. It is
amazing that the Accountant General’s
Department which has all the relevant
information, remained silent, when it
could quite easily have put out a
statement to say that the statements by
the Grenada Today Newspaper in respect
of the rent that was paid to the
Governor-General Sir Daniel Williams
were false.
Dawn
Williams
Note:
The views expressed above are those of
the writer and not necessarily the views of
the New National Party
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