Journalists Condemn False Reporting on Opinion Poll

PARAMARIBO — The publication of the so-called Bluedot poll in the morning newspaper Times of Suriname is seriously misleading and undermines one of the foundations of responsible journalism: serving the truth. The newspaper claims to have commissioned the opinion research by the Jamaican research agency Bluedot. This claim is demonstrably incorrect and is strongly contradicted by journalists Ivan Cairo, Nita Ramcharan and Wilfred Leeuwin. The op…