Reports of the death threat against investigative journalist Mark Bassant have surely sent chills up the collective spine of the media fraternity. Any doubts about the seriousness of the threat vapourise when one considers that if hired guns aren't bothered by the backlash that the assassination of a high-profile attorney may trigger, silencing a journalist would scarcely evoke pangs of conscience among our murderous lot.
For his tenacity and misplaced trust (imagine trusting the police: he must have been high!) Bassant is a man in exile, forced from a country that offers no sanctuary for integrity and decency.
Gifted with a propensity for both inanity and insanity, the acting Commissioner of Police, Stephen Williams, offered an explanation for Mr Bassant's predicament. In Mr Williams's mind, the death threat could have been inspired by the reporter's inaccurate reportage. One could only interpret this to mean that Dana's Seetahal's murderers, being sticklers for detail, were incensed by Bassant's creative licence in chronicling their murderous exploits.
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