Dear Editor,
It is now almost two months since NCN radio broadcasts have stopped in Linden. As has now become the pattern, the community has not been informed and so we sit and patiently wait. This attitude is simply eye-pass.
The lone NCN Linden Television station has a programme called “What you need”, which is used specifically to inform the residents on issues/matters of importance. Topics that are critical to the community take priority on this programme.
Why didn’t the NCN management use this programme to enlighten residents? Simply because they don’t see it as important.
But apart from the radio being down, even when it was on we have been getting very poor reception, the distortions, blanking out, and loud annoying buzzing make it near impossible to listen and this has been so for nearly two years. But like I said before, it is not until one goes public that the authorities come out with an abundance of excuses and justifications.
On the day this letter was being written the Stabroek News (Thursday April 10) carried an NCN response “Faulty phone line the cause of Linden radio blackout” whereby NCN claimed we (Lindeners) have been without access to radio for “close to a month” due to a faulty telephone line which transmits audio signals to NCN transmitting station. The report also said that CEO Mr Mohammed Sattaur “in an invited comment” further stated that Lindeners were told, “we are focused on getting it fixed as soon as possible”.
When and where was this information given to Lind-eners? See the point I’m making.
Yours faithfully,
Frank Fyffe
