Jagdeo shares out airwaves to friends…Bobby Ramroop has nine TV and radio channels Mirror newspaper gets five radio channels Deputy Permanent Secretary in Robert Persaud’s Ministry gets five too

Just before he left office, former President Bharrat Jagdeo farmed out the airwaves for his friends, those close to the government and a few others, it was revealed in the National Assembly yesterday.

Bharrat Jagdeo

This action was an abuse of power, said one parliamentarian.

Further, it was revealed that while the government has been inviting applications for TV stations, just a few more channels are available to be assigned.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds revealed that Dr Ranjisinghi Ramroop, the man Jagdeo publicly declared to be his best friend, has Channel 28 and three other links to that station, which could effectively allow him to broadcast across the country.
Further, Hinds made it clear that the very month Jagdeo left office (November 2011) he, Jagdeo, gave Dr Ramroop five radio frequencies. The President acts as the Minister of Information and it is under his hand that licences are issued.
The Prime Minister was responding to questions posed by Cathy Hughes, Parliamentarian with the Alliance for Change. Her questions were sparked by mounting controversy over the granting of radio and TV licences, particularly to Ramroop and China Central TV.
Yesterday, Hinds said that China Central TV does not have a licence; that its programmes are broadcast on channels assigned to NCN.
Regarding new radio licences granted under Jagdeo, the Prime Minister revealed that the New Guyana Company Limited, which publishes the Mirror newspaper, and belongs to the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) was granted five radio frequencies. The contact person for New Guyana Company Limited was listed as Dharam Kumar Seeraj, a Member of Parliament for the PPP.
In addition, a certain Telcor and Cultural Broadcasting Incorporated, was granted five radio frequencies. The contact person for that company was given as Mr Omar Lochan, who is believed to be a relative of Priya Manickchand, a senior government Minister. Lochan is listed as the Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment,

Dr Ranjisinghi Ramroop

under Minister Robert Persaud.
Apart from those, in the month before he left office, Jagdeo gave one radio frequency each to other persons. These are NTN Radio (Anand Persaud), Rudy Grant, Wireless Connections (Maxwell Thom), Hits and Jams Entertainment (Rawle Ferguson), Alfro Alphonso and Sons Enterprise (Alfro Alphonso), Haslyn Granham and Little Rock Television Station (Rockliffe Christie).
In December, 2010, Jagdeo also granted two close associates of the PPP permission to broadcast television signals on the 2.5 GHz band, which allows for cable TV operations and internet-related services.
These persons were Vishok Persaud, the son of longstanding PPP stalwart Reepu Daman Persaud, and Brian Yong, who mounted the PPP platform in 1996.
Regarding television stations, the Prime Minister said that only six more television stations can be assigned using current formats for television broadcast in Guyana.
Hinds said that determining the availability of channels for broadcasting depends on many factors. These include transmitter power and specifications, height of antenna, and location of proposed transmitters.
He said that given the propagation characteristics of sound broadcasting signals in the medium frequency (MF) and high frequency (HF) bands frequency availability is not based on national considerations only. International frequency usage and results of international notification and coordination are some of the considerations that would determine frequency availability, Hinds stated.
Frequency usage in the very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF) bands etc., in border areas, would also be informed by coordination with neighbouring countries, the Prime Minister claimed.
He said that to give a rough approximation (from a radio frequency standpoint) in the Georgetown area (the area with the highest demand), at least 10 more channels in the VHF band (FM sound broadcasting) can be assigned.
One more VHF channel can be assigned for television broadcasting and in the UHF band approximately five channels are available for assignment for television broadcasting.
However, he said that countless other radio and television channels could be made available when there is a change in broadcasting formats.
According to the Prime Minister, if Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) is introduced here, there is the potential for “hundreds of television and sound feed programmes/channels.”

Omkar Lochan – Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment.

He said DTTB is now common in many countries worldwide and the analog format is expected to be brought to an end worldwide in the not too distant future. The switch-off date for analog TV signals is June 17, 2015, for many European and African countries.
Guyana television broadcast is still analog (a broadband taking up much frequency space) .This country will be following the transition to DTTB, Hinds said, but a date has not yet been set.
He said that this analog to digital TV broadcasting switchover, while offering many benefits to viewers (including the capacity for additional television feeds/programmes), will introduce a very different scenario and the National Frequency Management Unit is currently working on this issue.

Is there any end to all of this.

Maybe Sam Hinds will still be the rational voice of the government. His statements read very Prresidential.

Then again he is the longest serving President of Guyana-him and his wife dresses very well. And I might add he is a courteous man.

As I said. FREE BUT UNFAIR ELECTIONS.

Dem boys seh…Jagdeo share out Guyana like if is he own

 
Everything that does do in darkness does come to light. Is now people know how Jagdeo had no regard fuh people in de country, especially dem who he feel is not from he party. He sit down and wuk out a scheme how fuh mek he family, he friends and he comrades share in three-quarters of de country.
When Bobby Ramroop put heself up front fuh buy Vieira TV station that was part of de plan. Jagdeo believe that he gun keep heself in de news. In fact, he got share in de TV station. But he wasn’t satisfy wid that.
Vieira had one radio station. Jagdeo give Ramroop four more and dem claim how dem buy de radio station from Vieira when dem buy de TV station. He call he niece husband, and give he five radio station channel. Rob Earth know that he couldn’t put he same suh he call Priya brother-in-law and tell he fuh put he name.
Donald smell a rat and was de Big Rat suh de same Jagdeo decide that he got to give de party five radio channel too. It ain’t done deh, he had to give he friends suh he call Hits and Jams and de Wireless Connection man and give dem radio station too.
He didn’t stop deh. He call some of he other friends and give dem radio station but he keep de best fuh last. He give some of dem cable suh dem can get telephone, TV and radio at de same time. Two of de Bees get this.
Now this is a man who did tell de world that he got all de Guyanese people at heart. Dem boys seh that he believe that Guyana only got he friends and he family.
Is now dem boys understand how he love heself. He find a way fuh give out all dem pharmaceutical contract and that only ease down when dem boys talk how de money getting thief because de taxpayers’ paying and de drugs ain’t coming.
More gun come to light by de dozen. Dem boys seh something got to happen.
Talk half and just think how Jagdeo give way de country to he friends and family.

Not only did he share out Guyana he handpicked his own President. 

De guy gat some hutzpah.

Lets see how the AFC will decide on its presidential candidate in the next elections.

AFC already has consensus candidates for the next election. These good folks will be ratified by democratic elections where people will vote in secret ballot. The consensus candidates will be challenged for the sake of democracy. No show of hands in AFC. 

Sorry Mahen, I did not see this thread when I started mine.

Moses could not jump the first hurdle he ran into and that is getting the support of Hughes and Trotman for the position of speaker of the parliament. I doubt he is going to have a easy time capturing the leadership of the AFC. This is something he badly wants to keep himself relevant on the political pasture.

Billy Goat, you will be surprise at who is pushing Moses Candidature.

Soon them chaps will come to front.

Clearly the fools are lying about Bobby getting 9 radio stations. It is more like 9 frequencies to extend the single radio station signal to remote areas. hahahah

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....oadcast-frequencies/

Jagdeo shares out airwaves to friends…PM Hinds fumbles on multiple broadcast frequencies

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday said that he sees no “big issue” over the granting of multiple broadcast frequencies to favourites of the government and former President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds

 

Hinds sought to explain that multiple frequencies were granted so that the programming of the station could be relayed to other parts of the country.
But telecommunications experts say the Prime Minister does not really know what he is talking about.
Hinds Thursday disclosed that three entities were given five radio frequencies each. These are TVG, owned by Dr Ranjisinghi Ramroop, the best friend of former President Jagdeo; Telcor and Cultural Broadcasting using a contact name Omar Lochan, the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources under Minister Robert Persaud; and New Guyana Company Limited, owned by the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), with the contact given as Dharamkumar Seeraj, a Member of Parliament for the PPP.
Hinds’s explanation that one station would operate the frequencies does not hold weight, experts say, since the one station can use another mechanism to relay its programming and does not necessarily need a frequency to do so.

Nine frequencies can be used for nine radio stations,one radio station can extend coverage by using reapeaters.Listed bandwidth description and frequency range.

druggie is actually quite ignorant on VERY simple matters technical . . . but likes to open his gullet and bray loudly anyway

These retards would not understand that..poke cuttas, henny and PPP milk destroy their brain cells...

The poke cutter tiefs give away Guyana airwaves to fellow bandits.

them thef we radio waves.  look at one of them friends in operation

Nonsense tk, you know better, these radio frequencies are not received in the same areas and the agreement on the radio application is that there would only be one radio station broadcasting to the 9 frequencies. 

druggie stop spewing nonsense,one radio station will cover guyana landscape with nine transmitters, at different frequencies you don't have a clue what you are talking about.You should stop support wrong doings

give jack his jacket.

 Explain this and see how dumb you are: why would Guyanese listeners want to listen to the same programing on 9 different frequency on their radio being broadcasting from one radio station

This is them nasty Jagdeoties trying to dominate the radio waves and leaving little for other who are legitimate broadcasters.

Can you imagine Daramkumar seeraj on radio.

Comrades abee theese gat to plant more rice.

This is how PPP demokery works folks complements of Jabba the Hut  Rumouthar





The Rejects Non PPpites....

Your stupidity is infinite. Do you read your  crapola before you post?

the ignar PPP tribesmen here see no evil . . . even when shit directly, insolently, in their faces

you must understand . . . the crimes of the "gladiators" does mek dem feel nice nice

these primitives reaching vicariously for 'Burnham' @ his worst to mitigate their empty, antiman existence . . . spent mostly on their knees

Statement by media owners

The Guyana Media Proprietors Association is appalled by the revelations in the National Assembly on the recent allocation of radio licences. It is calling for a reversal of this lawlessness. It flies in the face of freedom of expression. It will not be accepted. It would effectively limit objective voices. It smacks of deceit, duplicity, and downright discrimination. Effectively, then President Jagdeo breached the agreement between himself and Desmond Hoyte in 1997.
What he did was with deliberate bias when he refused licences to others. We demand the right to free and independent voices.

You are the biggest idiot on this forum who should be banned. How dare you disrespect the great drugb. hhahahaha

BUGGERED_see, you are a shameless propagandist.