Dear Editor,
I have no more words to describe my disappointment with Nikki Phoenix and her casual attempts to seek viewership and widen her audience through sensationalisng issues, often callously and with utter disregard for accuracy and integrity.
Nikki Phoenix is not a journalist. She needs to stop claiming that she is. She is a commentator and has always been a commentator. Her job is to give her opinion, not present verified facts in an unbiased way and present different viewpoints with balance. If Nikki Phoenix is a journalist, then my foot is a sandwich.
The other day she disgustingly placed her target on the mother of Achazia James, for saying in the news that she didn’t know anything about an online petition about justice for her daughter, and preferred it be taken down.
Who in their right mind makes the mother of a child victim of murder the basis for their sensational Facebook post with ridiculous emojis and all CAPs, suggesting that the woman has something to hide. How depraved and distasteful. And all for likes and views. Repulsive behaviour. She is not a journalist. She is a political commentator.
Now I see she is spreading a completely unevdienced theory that Asot Michael who was recently found dead and whose death was classed as a homicide, was the target of a hit. It took her just a few hours to come up with and post that nonsense. A journalist? Posting claims about the motive behind someone’s killing with zero evidence and not even a day after the persons death? Does that sound like a journalist to anyone? Does that not sound more like a hack? A fringe political commentator with no decorum?
Does she take responsibility when people run wtih and believe her nonsense and it is ultimately wrong? Does she take responsibility for injecting false nonsense into the public domain?
She is as bad as Fox News where they see a stroy and literally just state their opinion about what happened and how it happened and speak as though it were fact, and then hide behind “free speech” when people come at them for misleading and dishonest nonsense.
Nikki likes to say “I’m just asking questions”, as if that is an excuse. The question has to be a fair question with a reasonable basis. You can’t just use a question to suggest any old theory you want.
You can’t see a murder and ask “Was it a political hit ordered by Keith Rowley?” unless there is some credible evidence you have presented or which has been presented that has suggested that. Otherwise you are just using the question to inject your baseless assumptions into the public consciousness.
If someone sat down with Nikki to interview her and asked her “do you eat dog food for breakfast?” it would not be a fair question unless there was some evidence to suggest or infer that. All the question asker has really done is put an idea in people’s minds even though they had nothing to back it up. Nikki knows this. She doesn’t care for accuracy but she isn’t stupid.
The when she’s called out she goes “I’M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS” and “ASKING QUESTIONS IS NOT MAKING CONCLUSIONS”. She needs to go work for Donald Trump. She’s that kind of commentator these days. And she needs to stop calling what she does journalism. She’s a political commentator. End of story.
Sincerely,
Baroness Cheryl Highbottom
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Phoenix is neither journalist nor political commentator. She is a manure turner, who craves attention. Nothing more than that. It is regrettable that people actually listen and watch this type of garbage.
It’s simple, really. All that needs to happen is for her to be arrested for criminal libel and for using an electronic media in a manner that spreads disaffection and hate. The defamation laws and the Electronic Crimes Act clearly speak to what Malika Muffet, a.k.a “Nikki Phoenix” is doing. The police simply need to do their jobs.
We need a petition to have her lock down and band for social media ,she is a retard dunce ,I block her cause she’s a set on , chat a lot a shit and mislead people, only stupid people run with it,and soon from now she’s going pay for her mouth , one these days she gonna touch on the wrong topic , making false accusations and that someone will find her “Liam neeson voice” she needs to stop
she is a GOOYANESE scammer snake oil saleswoman posing as a “journalist” and gullible Antiguans fell for it! Look how Observer Radio bought it and swallowed it “hook, line and sinker” until somebody see she true colours!
You think she could do that in GOOYANA? no way!
I have no taste for the sort of thing that Nikki does but I do not subscribe to the notion that it is for the police to arrest anyone for speech, even sloppy, deceitful, sensational speech. The law provides a civil recourse for persons who are aggrieved. When you empower the state to qualify speech as unlawful and take punitive actions accordingly, you are endangering a fundamental freedom which supports liberty and a free society. Nikki needs to be sued one of these days, not taken to jail. Please.
How different Is it when Gaston put people’s personal business in the public domain via his Radio Station? Have you ever condemn his actions . On Tuesday of this week, via that same Medium, a prominent mouthpiece of the Party was offering condolences, in his own fashion, to the family of Mr. Michael by calling on party supporters who haven’t yet renewed their Voters ID cards and those who have not registered to vote, to prepare themselves because a by-election is imminent in St. Peter. If that isn’t sickening, then Nikki is a Messiah.
She is a disgusting human being
As a former journalist, I agree with the sentiment about fear questions.
People love to creatively “ask questions” with the intention to implant ideas for which they have no evidence.
If she had evidence, she would present it, no?
She’s just a thirsty, attention seeker.
Muffet is really really horrible.
Absolutely no time to waste listening to her.
This article just promoted her nonsense. Sigh
We have become so bitter and uncouth against each other.
It is absolutely dreadful.
This is a personal attack and I believe that most of you are just jealous that she asks the questions that you won’t.
We don’t need to get personal with folks. Too many people are dying suddenly. Nikki is the least of our problems.
We have so many things more important happening around us.
Also she did apologize to Acazias mother.
People, we need to do better. We have become like dogs fighting each other. Absolutely shameful!
jealous????? of????
She can go work for Irfaan Ali media team since she is such a journalist.
“We have been very welcoming. They have come here. They could never have achieved in GU-Y-A-N-A and Jamaica what they achieved here in Antigua. I know Jamaica very well. I have lived there. I know G-U-Y-A-N-A very well – I have travelled there on many occasions. If you know the amount of P-A-U-P-E-R-S in Jamaica and in G-U-Y-A-N-A…”
You see most of the journalist here has a relationship to an elitist entitlement to speak down to the ordinary citizens as though we a illiterate, they come with their superior logics, they are used to keep the political status quo in place, them and the lawyers. The educated and the rich is who often determine the future of the real hard working masses that build this country, in Marxism it is said the people will always find a solution to their problems, and so be it ,it’s free media or social media, which is reshaping world opinions, I won’t deny it having specific internet algorithm generated for a specific outcome of a bigger puppeteer, but overall it has levelled the playing feel against the control and influence that is manipulated by the politicians and the one percenters, Antigua is not no where near free media as yet, once it’s an independent country the politicians overarching power go pass the judiciary, that’s why a writer here is suggesting the police should lock up Nikki, in places like the virgin islands media, these politicians would have been gone either to jail or held to account, this same writer travel and know the freedom other nations enjoy, but chose to adhere to colonial behavior of making the people subjects as slave or property to be discarded if the master don’t like your production, none of you shall control my freedom, yes you have been keeping the perpetual poverty as the colonial masters did to keep us in our little black place as subhuman, but mentally I will be free. So this writer celebrate when damani tabor was shackled at the feet for alluding corruption in government and it’s funds? That’s an educated house nigger that enjoying government crumbs of the hard working ancestors who are not as educated as you but build this country for you to have that education, but you used that education not for liberating them but to enslave them, it’s fear in the citizens like yourself why you adhere to this fanaticism of merchant politicians instead of ideology for the betterment of our human race. Or quite frankly Antiguan and barbudans in general, I guess this writer will view barbudans as crazy for wanting to hold on to their land resources, the wrier will sell his mother to the Arabs.
I’ve noticed, there are many in Antigua who advocates for government/law enforcement to take action against others for speech of which they deem offensive, sensational, attention, seeking etc. I wonder if any of these people would prefer to live in a country like Eritrea, North Korea and others where this freedom isn’t afforded. Should I suggest that action be taken against this author and some commeters for what they’re writing now about Nikki Phoenix; why should y’all be afforded that right IF I’m personally offended?
As long as Nikki or anyone else isn’t slandering or libeling anyone, her right to say or write whatever she pleases should be PROTECTED!
Stop getting butt hurt over other people’s RIGHT to “mislead, offend” etc with their speech.
Freedom of Speech is RIGHT we must VALUE!
#saynotocitizenauthoritairianism.
tell her to go try that shit in Guyana, the land of her BIRTH and UPBRINGING or apply to go to North Korea!!!!
#SayNOtoNewAgeLies
Please tell she tek dung Antigua flag….what a stupid photo! She is Guyanese. Why not post her Guyanese flag????
Voice of the People was smart to kick her to the curb. She is a mess!
Is she from Guyana? Why she don’t keep out of Antigua and Barbuda politics, period. I guess if she was aligned to ABLP it would have been different.
When all you dimwits own y’all social media platforms then y’all can demand what you want. FB belongs to Mark Zuckerberg and none of you can stop people from writing what they want. So CRY HARDER! And me na know Nikki personally, but I support her right to put out pan FB whatever she want fu say bout any subject. Who bex can go ded! Bunch ah jackass’s
@The Age of Aquarius ♒…… You are the jackass. Free speech comes with the responsibility not to defame another person. That is why there is a Defamation Act: if you say something about someone that is not true, you can be sued and made to pay. There is also criminal libel that can land your ass in prison. There is also the Electronic Crimes Act that makes it unlawful to do and say certain things online.
Get a grip, you donkey, before someone of Bramble’s ilk rides you.
If she’s offensive to you don’t listen to her. She has a right to express her views. Even if they’re rubbish. What if 20 of us get together and decide we don’t like what you’re saying? Should they send the police for you? There’s already a process for dealing with spreading of false information.
President Ali made a call for Guyanese in the diaspora to return home and help build up Guyana.
With all the oil discovery, she don’t want to move back to her homeland ???
Says the Baroness who has attained her UNQUALIFIED title by any of these FOUR means. Let Brixtonian highlight why educated Antiguans shouldn’t pay her no mind at all:
1) Inheritance, whereas her title has been handed down to her through the generations
2) Through marriage, if she has married a Baron
3) By an appointment to the UK’S House of Lords
4) Or buying the title of Baroness from a European noble
However on the other hand, our own Nikki Phoenix (one of Antigua’s best investigative and hard-hitting – and take no prisoners – journalist), has worked hard to get where she is today in here career.
I’ve watched her destroy the misogynistic Lionel Hurst on a television debate; and who can forget her career DEFINING interview with the gentleman that was behind the $1 million dollars hurricane Irma relief fund that has mysteriously gone missing, and the Barbudan’s are still awaiting answers from Prime Minister Gaston Browne.
SO WHO’S WORD DO WE BELIEVE?
That of a hardworking journalist, or someone who has been elevated through patronage?
That’s why I’m the best of the best my fellow Antiguans, Brixtonian only brings you facts, pure facts 😉
Cancel culture is DEAD!!! You can’t cancel anyone for their opinion..nikki is the ONLY person journalists or not who ask thought provoking questions!! Like it or not she is NOT bound by yall ideology. Ain’t nobody staying silent as long as yall keep ignoring RUM SHOP RADIO!! SO BYE KAREN!!!
@Eash &Basin, who did Nikki defame? Did you read my first post that said as long as she’s not slandering or libeling anyone? Just shut your RHole cause I’ve already covered that subject, mental midget.!
@The Age of Aquarius ♒…. You are obviously at home with nothing to do and playing with your impotent self.
Ah baye, you ugly jackass.
@Wash n Basin, Bramble ride you already! Battybwoy!
@Wash n Basin, you got the nerve to be talking about impotent while meddling in a woman melee. What I have between my legs does not dangle! Ugly? Lmao, is that the best you could come up with, cuckold?
Age of Aquarius
Just by your username it’s obvious you are deceived by the same Serpent 🐍
A strong delusion has overtaken you.
Baroness, I think your letter is an insult to FOX NEWS. They actually have a rating and they earn money from their viewership, Malika Muffett has neither.
@Truth be Told, 😂since I don’t believe what you believe in no serpent can deceive me. The man with the water pitcher — for me, it’s all astrology -aquarius is the water bearer. #ZIETGEIST
*Zeitgeist*
The First thought that came to mind when I heard of Mr. Michael’s Murder.He Started getting too Close to ABLP after it was said he could never Run on a ABLP ticket again as long a Hitler is Leader of that Party.Election Bells are Ringing and the only way Their Last Candidate Can Bring home the Seat for ABLP, Get Rid OF ASOT.I ain’t leaving Nothing Pass ABLP. ALL them ah Do ah Cry Crocodile Tears but deep down in their heart them Glad ASOT Dead.
… And furthermore, and rather disturbing @ Truth Be Told, I’ve just tried to Google information on the so-called Baroness Cheryl Highbottom, and come up with NOTHING, ZILCH, BUPKIS, NOT A DAMN DICKIE BIRD …
Hmmmmm, this plot thickens 🤔
@ Brixtonian
Baroness Cheryl Highbottom is a he and a fraudster. Need I say more,