There are currently 44 new applications for television, radio and cable licences according to Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) Chairman Leonard Craig who announced yesterday that existing broadcasters will have to reapply for a 2016 licence and a decision is still to be made on controversial licences handed out by the Jagdeo administration in 2011.
“Everybody would have to re-apply and in the re-application process you will be considered on the merit of your application,” Craig said at a press conference held yesterday during which the media was told that Guyana does not have sufficient spectrum to accommodate all of the prospective broadcasters.
He said that re-application does not mean you have to full out a new application but simply means it will go into a pile with everything else and be judged based on merits. “So it doesn’t mean we will call you to say take a blank application, fill it out and submit it again. Re- application simple means re-evaluation,” he explained.