Is local media anti-American?

THE EDITOR: Why is it that the local press has studiously avoided the brewing scandal at the United Nations over the oil for food scandal? It is being alleged that over US$17 billion was skimmed off the oil for food programme and into the pockets of Saddam Hussein and persons in Russia and France. Yet the Trinidad and Tobago media has not given any significant coverage to this scandal. In international circles people are talking about the Secretary General having to resign in disgrace and yet the local media is silent.

Could the silence of the local media have anything to do with the fact that this scandal proves that Russia and France were defending Saddam Hussein’s regime against invasion for selfish reasons. Could it be that the scandal proves that Saddam Hussein was a greedy dictator who let his people starve as he filled his pockets and those of his friends. Is the local media embarrassed to tell people that Saddam Hussein was using the oil for food programme to fund international terrorism and that therefore the United States (gasp) was right in removing him? And we wonder why the United States Ambassador to Trinidad thinks that the local media is anti-American.

RONALD SAMMY
Palmiste