ST GEORGE’S Grenada: The Media Workers Association of Grenada (MWAG) and members of the press who covered a press conference with the Minister of National Security and the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary on Monday say they are astonished that the government would call the press conference to disseminate information and then about an hour before major newscasts call several journalists and stations asking that they do not report on aspects of the story. During the press conference held by Minister of National Security Einstein Louison, he made claims that an Opposition Member of Parliament is facing multiple fraud charges in the United States, indicating that the State Department and the United States Embassy in St George’s are involved. Members of the media in Grenada have found out independently through their own investigation that this part of the information is not correct. “One would assume that having read from a text the Minister would have presented well researched and documented evidence,” said MWAG in a press release. The release continued: “While it is the Minister and any other body’s right to make statements they think are both relevant and important, they should understand that they should not consciously use the media as a pawn in any game of misinformation. “The Minister cannot make a very public statement on an issue, and then have his officers call and say it is not true, and that it should be simply swept under the carpet. “We can repeat the whole story, including the retraction. But asking that it be swept under the carpet altogether will be unbecoming of us as purveyors of the truth. “We are satisfied that undue pressure was brought to bear on some of the local stations to bury all the information that has come out in the last 24 hours. This action we feel was generally unhealthy and unbecoming.” MWAG has called on the Minister and Press Secretary, who sat with him at the Press Conference, to apologise to the media and the nation. Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com