The Commonwealth Observer Group in its final report on the monitoring of elections in Guyana on November 28, 2011 said that State-owned media gave the PPP/C Government coverage over Opposition parties on a scale of at least 8:1, not including a large amount of Government news of direct benefit to the ruling party.
Citing the Media Monitoring Unit’s (MMU) report on coverage during the month of November 2011, the Commonwealth said that the Government Information Agency (GINA) is reported to have published over twenty articles in September and October that supported the interests of the PPP/C.
It said that NCN carried extensive party political broadcasts of the PPP/C featuring then President Bharrat Jagdeo and the