Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has repudiated the notion that a political party can direct transfer of a budgetary allocation from the state media to another entity and regards it as a “a blow to democracy and violation of the constitutional rights of the citizens to receive government information,” the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
He said it is an attempt to interfere with the government’s right to disseminate information about its work.
His remarks came in wake of the stated intention of the AFC to withdraw support for budgetary allocations to the state media entities, the National Communications Network (NCN) and the