Prime Minister Sam Hinds has taken umbrage at two headlines appearing one day apart speaking of the issuing of cable licences in Guyana favouring friends of the administration and the methodology utilised in other countries for the allocation of such licences.
On April 18, 2013, Stabroek News carried an article headlined, ‘Jamaica seeking big bucks for cable licences in public auction- what did Guyana get?’ on April 19, 2013, this newspaper carried another report headlined, ‘Cable operators Yong, Persaud not paying anything –PM –cites small population size’.
Hinds in a statement to the Government Information Agency said that in the current Guyana situation,