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GNBA regulations get Cabinet approval

May 12, 2017 News

Cabinet has approved the new set of regulations proposed by the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA). This brings the Authority another step closer to the day when it will finally have the tools needed to bring law and order to the local broadcasting.
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo recently told Kaieteur News that he has “done the necessaries” after receiving the regulations from GNBA Board Chairman, Leslie Sobers.
He said that he then took it to Cabinet and it is now being sent to Chief Parliamentary Counsel to be vetted.
Only last month Sobers handed over advice for the new regulations to better enforce provisions of the broadcasting authority. Nagamootoo said he completed the new regulations.
Consultations on the broadcasting regulations started some time ago. Regulations are crucial as officials have pointed out a number of deficiencies in the past, especially with regards to enforcement.
Attention is being paid to the GNBA and its activities, as there were questions when the Bharrat Jagdeo administration in 2011 approved several radio and cable licences to close friends and associates.
Some of the frequencies even went to the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).
Several prominent media houses were overlooked, including Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, for radio licences.
The granting of those licences was done despite a standing agreement to have new broadcast laws in effect and an authority in place. The approval by Jagdeo was done a few weeks before he ended his constitutional two terms in office.
Several broadcasters have since been found to be in breach of the current regulations.

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