The process recently used to allocate radio licences is “unworkable” the Guyana Media Proprietors Association (GMPA) has said while expressing concern about the absence of transparency.
The association is calling on the administration to make public the criteria used to determine the recipients of the licences. Government recently announced the allocation of radio licences for several entities and the GMPA in a statement last week said that while it greeted the news with a deep sense of hopefulness, there was also a feeling of “great ambivalence, apprehension, and major dissatisfactions.”
“Our elation, that the unnecessarily prolonged Radio monopoly maintained by the Government is finally ending, is tempered and diminished by both the absence of transparency in the