Other state entities were used to pay salaries for the PPP activists. This is being investigated.

So why are the managers of NCN are still on the job? I do not believe they were ordered to do so. That whole "get up" was a political agency functioning on behalf of t he PPP. One simply had to look at the headlines over the past four months.

I think they are peeling the onion one layer at a time.

Anyone know who the 24 people are???

Some people already midssing on GNI and just keep a look out and see who will disappear from GNI.

Nice!

Publish the names.

Tell how much money they made.

That's as bad as the OLD PNC running the Office of the GS/Ministry of National Development to run their party operations.

Some of these "secret bloggers" were desperately trying to defend the PPP/C Govt corrupt practices leading up to the elections on FaceBook and in the Chronicle. Others created on FB fake "APNU/AFC activists" who spewed hate messages towards East Indians. The PPP/C website would then copy these messages and highlight them on their website to show how "hateful" the Coalition supporters are. They were paid tens of thousands of dollars every 2 weeks.

NCN AND CHRONICLE WILL BE GOVT OWNED FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS. HYPOCRITES AND LIARS!!!!!!

According to sources within of the Ministry of the Presidency, most of the staffers were being paid to write letters to the editors to the various newspapers, and to create fake profiles on Facebook and other social websites. It would be one of the most glaring cases that have emerged in which state resources were being abused under the previous Government. Almost a dozen of them had contracts with the National Communications Network (NCN), reportedly receiving salaries from that entity as well as from the Office of the President. Other state entities were used to pay salaries for the PPP activists. This is being investigated.

What hypocrisy and lies?

I am not here to remind you of your anger with the PPP Govt owning NCN and Chronicle, Go look it up. By the way, it was nOT only YOU.

FROM GT MOSQUITO:

"Three of them are related to senior PPP members. According to records seen by this publication, Renata Rohee, a daughter of the General Secretary of the PPP/C Clement Rohee, was paid along with eight others, the sum of $22,000 every fortnight for a job specified as “monitor and works processor”. They were on the state-funded NCN payroll but worked out of OP. Also on the payroll were Dikisha Cumberbatch, the sister-in-law of former Office of the President Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy, and Javed Mustapha, a family member of Zulfikar Mustapha, Executive Secretary of the PPP/C.

Other persons listed as having contracts up to as recently as March 31, 2015 are Carl Howes, Dana King, Orland Smith, Dellon La Rose Carlyle Softly, and Nayland Walker (monitor operator/video specialist) . Waheeda Saheed earned $60k per month with gratuities as a media monitor.

McCoy, under the watch of then Head of the Press and Publicity Unit at the Office of the President, Prem Misir had established the New Media Unit around 2008 to monitor and respond to the rise in online criticisms of the PPP, particularly on such fora as the Guyana Message Board and from sites such as LivingGuyana. Among those involved was Bassu Dwarka the current Protocol Officer to the President at Office of the President who was an administrator for the slander site LiveinGuyana.  Also associated with the unit at that time were “Dood” Safraaz Shadood and Robeson Benn Jr. among others."

How shocking...PPP/C leaders children and relatives living off the trough of the taxpayers.

eh?

having one of your episodes or you don't know what you talking about?

is as the case as usual he doan know wah the rass him talking bout

The government should get out of the media business. Their business is gov't not private enterprise.

This is where I would usually say, "Shut yo batty hole" but today I feel like being nice.

They used to post here on GNI along with Jason Abdullah (Taps Son). A bunch of creeps. 

We need the real name of all these people.  Who got the contacts to arrange a leak?  I donate US$1 to the cause

I so miss my buddy Councie. You'd think Sir Councie of Shitdom would at the very least paid a visit to say hi, but nooooo. What a meanie.

If Councie is the person whom I think he is, I have some video recorded at a social event, that could be embarrassing.

The person who hosted the event is no longer a supporter of the PPP and unemployed from UG.   

Cash-strapped NCN in hot water for paying OP’s phantom bloggers

Some of the persons hired to work in a shadowy unit reportedly spearheaded by Kwame Mc Coy,

Kwame Mc Coy

former Press Liaison of the Office of the President, were not even stationed there, as shocking details continue to emerge over the extent of the abuse of state resources under the previous Government.

On Monday, almost two dozen persons were given letters ending their services by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, after it became clear that they were tasked with doing political, propaganda work for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).

According to officials of the Ministry of the Presidency (formerly OP) yesterday, investigations revealed that many of the persons were paid from accounts of the Presidential Secretariat and from state agencies, like the National Communications Network (NCN) so as not to raise eyebrows over the amounts. Some were even operating from their homes.

The two dozen contract employees were left in limbo after the PPP/C lost the May 11 General and Regional Elections.

Questioned by officials at the Ministry of the Presidency, one of the contracted employees who was among the few from the secretive unit stationed at OP, admitted that he was tasked with preparing invoices for persons who did not work at OP but had permanent jobs elsewhere.
OP was also billed for work done. Some were collecting up to $22,000 per fortnight from NCN. It is unclear how much they were collecting from OP.
They were tasked with monitoring the local newspapers for letters and articles criticizing Government and countering. However, the more popular ones included going online to Facebook and launching attacks on persons who made comments that were negative to PPP/C.

“In other words, the people of Guyana were paying for people to go online and surf Facebook,” a source close to the investigations at the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.

Over the last year, the phantom workers, who included relatives of a former senior Minister and a Parliamentarian from Berbice who works at NCN, went after personalities including Kaieteur News columnist Freddie Kissoon and Publisher Glenn Lall.

They would also single out controversial projects that were under scrutiny by the Opposition and defend them. Many of them reportedly created Facebook accounts using fake names and were tasked with preparing reports of their work to Mc Coy.

“As of now, we are not sure how much monies were being paid and which other ministries were doing the paying. What we do know is that this scenario is precisely why we were raising issues over contract employees. We can’t have people working and we don’t know what they are doing. This is criminal.”

The phantom unit and the payments from NCN has also raised questions over the role played by that state entity in issuing payments, despite knowing that the contract workers were not stationed there.

“We are looking at the entire operations of NCN and it is operating in a deficit and yet it found monies to pay these phantom bloggers.”
A few years ago, NCN told Parliament that it was grossing almost $500M annually in revenues but wanted a subsidy to help it through.
Under the description for payments, most of two dozen or so contract employees were described as ‘Work Processor Operator’.