{"id":22322,"date":"2024-09-04T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22322"},"modified":"2024-09-04T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T17:45:18","slug":"jagdeo-criticizes-media-distortions-of-ntc-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/jagdeo-criticizes-media-distortions-of-ntc-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeo Criticizes Media Distortions of NTC Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the People&#8217;s Progressive Party\/Civic (PPP\/C), has called out sections of the media for distorting the realities of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a party press conference today, Jagdeo responded to recent negative coverage from the Amerindian People&#8217;s Association (APA) and other critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jagdeo criticized media outlets for elevating the APA\u2019s criticisms while disregarding the overwhelmingly positive feedback received from the over 200 Toshaos who attended the conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the conference was a significant success and a model of good governance, providing an unprecedented level of engagement and consultation with Indigenous leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing concerns about his comments regarding the carbon credits funds, Jagdeo clarified that the statement was in line with the Low Carbon Development Strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asserted that Amerindian leaders are fully involved in agreements affecting their lands and that opting out is a part of their rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, General Secretary of the People&#8217;s Progressive Party\/Civic (PPP\/C), has called out sections of the media for distorting the realities of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference 2024.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22323,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22322\/revisions\/22323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}