PM Nagamootoo reaffirms support for GNBA

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First Vice President and Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo on Wednesday, with board members of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) at the Authority’s office on Lamaha Street.
The Prime Minister welcomed the members to their new location and congratulated the organisation on their work completed so far, and also for their recommendations that were made and inputted in the Broadcast Act.

First Vice President and Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo with Board Members of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA)

The three Ps ‘Public Private Partnership’ were noted by the Prime Minister, as important in the execution of the functions and mandate of the GNBA. “You have my support full as the Minister with responsibility for broadcasting. In your zoning activities in redefining the contours of broadcasting in Guyana”, he said.
The issue of boadcast time was discussed extensively. Prime Minister Nagamootoo noted that the Authority recommended one minute per 60 minutes per day. He explained “the Act had stated that a certain percentage of broadcast time shall be made available for public broadcasting which was called Development Support Broadcasting”.
The Prime Minister said that the orgnaistion should not leave it to government to create 60- minute or 10minute content, but open it to all enterprising persons, “…maybe a fund could be developed by the GNBA … for producers of Public Content, Public Information Content and they should apply to access the funds to produce programmes whether is a programme they wish to produce in a particular way, in a particular format to deal with suicide prevention, or smoking to alcohol consumption.”
Nagamootoo identified that there is a difference “between government information and government provided information and party propaganda”. He noted that “no station private or public” should be required or mandated to carry party political propaganda; the GNBA needs to assure the Guyanese people that it understands public broadcasting content is not synonymous with political party propaganda.
The Prime Minister empahsised that e broadcasting was created to satisfy the needs and necessities of the community which it serves.

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