It is with great frustration and disappointment that I read the article published on the front page in your Saturday paper entitled « Man gunned down in Marigot”.
I could understand fully that your main objective as a media is to sell papers but it is also the duty of any professional and ethical news media to collect the proper and correct information knowing that when the news hit the public , it is somewhat impossible to turn around the false information that has time to spread over the island and most of all on the Internet!
Journalism must be about sensational breaking news , yes, but you should check your sources and not publish what this one or that one said ! How can a newspaper like the Daily Herald depend on another French newspaper, Le Pélican, to get information!
This young man has a mother and her father , they are hurting to see what was published about their loving son! At no time was he convicted! It is incredible to see how many of us including journalists are so eager to condemn the young people! Right away it is a drug dealer, a robber !
I have noticed over the past years that most of the news media on this island are so eager to publish only negative and destructive news about Saint Martin as if there is a real policy to annihilate us!
I would like to ask you, Mr Editor to carry out your investigation and publish your apologies to the family on front page as how Rigobert’s image was torn down !
Rest in Peace, my lil Geegee ! And to all his family: hold on, be of good courage , God is with you all!
Aline CHOISY