Michael Pintard, the host of the popular daytime talk show “Issues of the Day” and Wendall Jones, CEO of radio Love 97, have parted ways after a disagreement on comments Mr Pintard made on the show about the prime minister.
Mr Jones told The Tribune yesterday that Mr Pintard was asked to apologise on air to Prime Minister Perry Christie for comments he had made on his show about Mr Christie’s statement on the death penalty at the funeral service for slain prison officer Dion Bowles.
When contacted, Mr Pintard said he would release a full statement before the end of the week. He said this statement would include his history at Love 97 as it relates to “Issues of the Day” and the series of events that led to his decision not to apologise as requested, and then demanded by Mr Jones and “those persons who sought to influence the tone of the show.”
Mr Jones told The Tribune that there was a “disconnect” between what the prime minister had said at the funeral and what his government did. He said, Mr Pintard had an option to apologise to the prime minister for that “disconnect.” However, he added, that Mr Pintard has not yet “seen it fit or it hasn’t registered to him yet that it was a disconnect and the prime minister did not tell a lie.”
TIFFANY GRANT Tribune Staff Reporter
