GNBA Board holds “emergency meeting” to resolve burning issues

Aug 17, 2016 News

The Board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Agency (GNBA) on Monday held an emergency meeting

GNBA Chairman, Leonard Craig

in an effort to resolve some burning issues.
Kaieteur News spoke to the Board’s Chairman, Leonard Craig who said that “all issues regarding the business of GNBA were discussed.” He said that specific attention was placed on issues of importance “which will help us, as a Board, to move forward.”
Asked if all members were in attendance, Craig refused to be specific. His only response was, “we had a quorum.”
Pressed for more information as to the outcome of the meeting, Craig said that he has to be temporarily tightlipped about the meeting. Reason being, Craig said, that the Board has decided to issue some press statements before the end of this week. The chairman insisted that speaking to the media now on the matters discussed in the meeting would be preempting the statements.
However, Kaieteur News was subsequently able to confirm that Anthony Vieira was not in attendance at Monday’s meeting.
The GNBA has been having some serious problems. Craig and Vieira, a key member of the Board, just cannot seem to get along. As a result, the work of the Board has been stalled for some time. Monday’s meeting is the second in recent times that Vieira has not attended ever since he staged a protest and stormed out a Board meeting.
Information reaching this newspaper is that Vieira will not return to any meeting until such time as

GNBA Board member, Anthony Vieira

Craig is no longer “a concern.”
Vieira is the Chairman of a sub-committee that has been set up to deal with some very important business of the GNBA. That Committee is referred to as the Legal matters and Fees Committee.
Currently, regulations that are supposed to prompt major changes in the broadcasting industry are stuck in that committee, as Vieira is insisting that he cannot work with Craig.
Despite it not being within his power to appoint or remove a Board member, the Broadcasting entrepreneur thinks that Craig is not fit to be Chairman of the Board. Thus, he is refusing to fully corporate.
Kaieteur News understands that the rift between Craig and Vieira has been longstanding.
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo recently told Kaieteur News that he did not know about any discord on the Board. Nevertheless, he was quoted in sections of the state media calling on the GNBA to sort out its internal issues and put the business of the public first.
While Vieira refuses to work with Craig, critical issues are not being attended to, including the lowering of Broadcasting fees and the existence of illegal radio licences.

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