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Region Ten TV dish reportedly sold
Region Ten is still without its television station after two years and now it is reported that the dish is sold.
After an article was published by this newspaper on January 24, last, the gate to the building built to accommodate the transmitter was locked and a sign “Trespassers will be prosecuted. Property of NCN” was attached to the fence.
According to Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon, he was informed by a very influential contact in Georgetown that the dish which is supposed to be given to the people of Region Ten is sold to a close friend of the former President Bharrat Jagdeo. The Chairman noted that his contact was approached by the suspected buyer to assist him in removing the dish from Richmond Hill, Linden where it is located but the man refused saying it is dishonest and he cannot betray the people of Linden.
Solomon is asking if it is official from the Government. “Maybe; maybe not. Maybe they are influential people doing their own thing knowing they will be protected.”
The Chairman was very vocal in voicing his dissatisfaction. “What you are recognising here is what is reported to us that the equipment that they should have been handing over to us in fourteen days – the transmitter is non-existent, doesn’t exist. So even though they would have signed an agreement to hand it over they knew that it is not within their possession and that the transmitter they should have handed over uses the CH 13 Frequency.
“Second, the dish in this compound is reportedly sold to a very close friend of the Government. That is why they don’t want us here. So even though the government committed to hand it over, it is sold to someone else and that is where the main issue of the frustration is coming from.”
Solomon said that it is all fancy words and deception because the regulators couldn’t give a Channel 13 transmitter without a Channel 13 Frequency unless they had no intention in the first place to hand over the transmitter which to date they have not done.
He claimed what was promised to the Region was the dish and the transmitter that was there from Green Construction. He said that a transmitter does not exist in isolation; a transmitter exists with a frequency. So CH13 transmitter and frequency were to be handed over.
“Even though they made the promise they never had anything to give. Now we are up there they never thought that we would have moved and progressed so far. We are there and a man done pay for the thing. They have to make sure they stop us before we get the thing up and running.”
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