The PNCR says it will use all legitimate means to ensure the constitutional rights of Guyanese to Freedom of Expression, particularly in this election year.
And the main opposition party also noted that in spite of various promises, and consistent with the ideological orientation of the PPP, “there is no Freedom of Information Act and the Government Radio monopoly continues,” according to a PNCR press release.
Meanwhile, the PNCR stated that they had expected that President Bharrat Jagdeo with only a few months left of his Presidency, would have attempted to “atone for his many transgressions of the Constitution of Guyana.”
Instead, according to the party, over the last months “we have observed the very crude campaign to muzzle the media messages and responses of the Opposition to the blatant lies and open propaganda being spewed by the regime and its willing cohorts, including the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) and the National Communications Network (NCN).”
The PNCR said further that Guyanese by now are familiar with the tried and tested tactics and machinations of the PPP government to “terrorise, particularly, Channel 6 (CNS TV) and Channel 9 (HBTV) into not airing the legitimate views and opinions of citizens who have differing opinions.”
The PNCR contended that “the obvious intention is to silence the PNCR and all Guyanese opposed to the PPP in this election year, while the state-owned Channel 11 (NCN TV), the monopolised Radio Station, along with Channels 65 and 69, and bolstered by the Guyana Chronicle, continue to spew the vile propaganda of the PPP.”
In that light, the PNCR is calling “on all Guyanese to ensure that this devious plot never materialises.”
