Guyana remains listed as ‘Partly Free’ in the latest Freedom House rankings for media freedom—a year after slipping from ‘Free’ status.
With a score of 33, the country is ranked 68 alongside Italy in the 2013 global ranking of 197 countries and territories, while it ranks 17 of the 35 territories in the Americas, according to the Freedom of the Press report, which was released yesterday.
Freedom House, which is a US-based ‘think tank’ that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights, says the media freedom index “assesses the degree of print, broadcast, and internet freedom in every country in the world” through analysis of the events of each calendar year. Countries are assigned scores between