The Guyana National Broad-casting Authority (GNBA) will this morning be issuing radio licences to several new applicants, including television broadcaster Chandra Narine Sharma and the Kaieteur News newspaper.
Sources at the agency told Stabroek News that the six licensees include an applicant who already has a radio station in Essequibo.
In November of last year, the GNBA presented five radio broadcasters with licences for 2016, saying that they have demonstrated full compliance under the 2011 Broadcasting Act and that the move paved the way for the enforcement of the then recently-amended legislation…..
Can’t send home 4,000 without options
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Tiwarie sues over Sunset Lakes sale
Businessman Brian Tiwarie, former owner of housing project Sunset Lakes, is seeking damages in excess of $300 million for what he says is the unlawful transfer of the 100 acres of land valued at US$8 million by the Registrar of Lands to Precious Metal Mines.
Colombians, Venezuelans among nine held after Waini cocaine bust
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Uncle deemed fit to stand trial for toddler’s murder
Sherwin Roberts, the Sophia man charged with murdering his niece, was yesterday deemed fit to stand trial after an evaluation by psychiatrist Dr Bhiro Harry.
Thirteen homeless after Mahdia fire
A family of thirteen is now homeless after their home in Mahdia (Potaro-Siparuni) went up in flames yesterday afternoon.