Breaking News....Radio licences protests taken to OP

Breaking News….Radio licences protests taken to OP

Apr 15, 2013 News

Media operatives, backed by concerned supporters, took their protest to the Office of the President today to demand the withdrawal of radio and cable licenses granted under questionable circumstances by former President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall and Veteran broadcaster Enrico Woolford

The protest was staged to coincide with a scheduled meeting at the OP between President Donald Ramotar and members of the Opposition over the proposed budget cuts.
The peaceful protest saw the presence of Kaieteur News Publisher, Glenn Lall; Charles Griffith, a Director at the privately-run Hoyte Blackman Television (HBTV) Channel Nine and veteran broadcaster, Enrico Woolford.
Bearing placards, the protestors stood quietly on the parapet on Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, opposite the President’s Office. Police ranks demanded the protestors to leave and even called for “back up. However, the protest continued.
In an invited comment, Mr. Lall stressed that “the protest continues with the unlawful, illegal and immoral issue of radio and cable license by former President, Bharrat Jagdeo. I believe it was a discriminatory act perpetrated on this national and it must be corrected.”
Woolford is convinced that the move made by Jagdeo was clearly one in which he rewarded close friends and party supporters. “He (Bharrat Jagdeo) was supposed to act without affection or ill-will but clearly he acted with affection for his people and ill-will against the people he thought were not in his corner.”