Media credibility a big problem.
Here we go again. The Jamaica Observer blunders again. This time in this article on January 14, 2006 they state the following, "Less than five years ago, University of the West Indies' Guild of Undergraduate president Basil Waite, who later became a YO chairman, was in the headlines after the winner of a Mercedes Benz motor car was unable to collect his vehicle more than a year after the raffle."
As it turns out this was not the case as in statement on January 15, 2006 the Jamaica Observer reports, "Mr Waite was not involved with the Guild at the time of the raffle - the year 2000 - as he had graduated from the UWI in 1998."
Who is checking the facts before they print these things? Is it I think that is what I remember therefore it is so? I am sure the Jamaica Observer has an archive. If they don't, they probably should try the Jamaica Gleaner. Check the archives and get the facts and stop misleading people. Suppose I did not get the Sunday Observer. I would have left with the wrong impression.
From the Gleaner Archives
UWI Guild Elections Postponed
UWI to probe Guild's Raffe Account
As it turns out this was not the case as in statement on January 15, 2006 the Jamaica Observer reports, "Mr Waite was not involved with the Guild at the time of the raffle - the year 2000 - as he had graduated from the UWI in 1998."
Who is checking the facts before they print these things? Is it I think that is what I remember therefore it is so? I am sure the Jamaica Observer has an archive. If they don't, they probably should try the Jamaica Gleaner. Check the archives and get the facts and stop misleading people. Suppose I did not get the Sunday Observer. I would have left with the wrong impression.
From the Gleaner Archives
UWI Guild Elections Postponed
UWI to probe Guild's Raffe Account
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