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BREAKING: Subhan, others to step down as part of major shake-up at state media outlets

Head of the Government Information Agency (GINA) Neaz Subhan has resigned from his post and several senior state media officials are expected to hand in their resignations shortly.

A source in the new administration told NewsNow that Beverly Alert, herself a former GINA employee, having resigned several years ago, is earmarked to replace Subhan as GINA’s Head. Alert is a member of the AFC component in the coalition.

The government, the source said, is looking forward to the resignations of GINA Editor-in-Chief Shanta Goberdhan, Guyana Chronicle Editor-in-Chief acting, Mark Ramotar and General Manager Michael Gordon, National Communications Network (NCN) Chief Executive Officer Molly Hassan, Marketing Manager Raymond Azeez, Human Resources Manager Daren Khan and Senior Editor, Edward Layne. It is also understood that the government is considering reassigning Hassan to the Marketing portfolio at NCN.

Reports also indicate that GINA is indebted to Chronicle to the tune of over GY$70M for state advertisements placed and refused to settle its debts claiming lack of finances. This is despite GINA having spent tens of millions of dollars for the production and printing of the controversial “Guyanese Newspaper” in the United States.

The Coalition government is also expected to completely replace both the NCN and GNNL Boards of Directors.

With 177 employees on the NCN payroll, the entity is also considered by the new government to be extremely bloated, particularly in the administrative department where the former government is believed to have inserted employees for political reasons. NCN is operating at a multi-million dollar loss on a monthly basis and the new government is keen on streamlining its operations to bring it into a state of profitability. A complete re-branding and makeover of NCN’s marquee programmes such as the Six O’Clock News and Guyana Today is also on the cards with a new cadre of anchors and presenters expected to replace the current crop, the source said.

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-Regional Executive Officers likely to be replaced

 

Former Chief Election Officer Gocool Boodoo earned close to half a million dollars per month as a consultant for the Ministry of Local Government but has since resigned his position according to new Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan who said he is unclear as to what services were provided by Boodoo.

Pointblank
Originally Posted by VVP:

Had to be done in any regime change.  Sell the damn media business!!  Govt should not be in the media business...you are nit dealing with the BBC here.

I agree. Gov't should not be in the media business and control what gets put out there. Get out of the newspapers and TV business and Leave it to the private enterprise. This is the only way to have an unbiased media. Of course some private media outlets will have their editorial biases, you cannot prevent that, but at least the perception of administrative bias would be removed. Plus,gov't administrators, at regardless of political stripes are not really good business managers; they are better at political rhetoric and should leave the running of businesses to those who are better able to do so. They usually have enough od a hard time managing their own gov't portfolios much less tackling a business that should be in the ambit of the private arena.

FM
Originally Posted by Nehru:

THe CHANGE Guyanese wanted.  Remove all the Professionals and load up with PNC Criminals!!!!!!!!!!!

What professional. Subhan was sharma cameraman and suddenly he is the head of NCN go figure

Pointblank
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

TV production in Guyana is so poor and unprofessional.

The first rule of video recording, both camera and object being filmed should not be moving at the same time. Always use a tripod.

 

I covered events where an NCN camera person hand-held  a camera for 45 minutes, during a fixed position talk.  No matter how much you can make a tripod with your body, camera shake will be visible.

 

The people at NCN needs proper training with camera use and editing process. Especially using wireless microphones to avoid distracting audio.      

Tola

Yes, rid NCN and GINA of all the political hacks, cronies, propagandists. Get rid of ALL the PPP leaders family members who padded the payroll and were collecting easy money to spread lies and surf the internet.

 

Get rid of all the news anchors with the fake British and American accents.

FM
Last edited by Former Member
Originally Posted by Gupta:

Yes, rid NCN and GINA of all the political hacks, cronies, propagandists. Get rid of ALL the PPP leaders family members who padded the payroll and were collecting easy money to spread lies and surf the internet.

 

Get rid of all the news anchors with the fake British and American accents.

Where did some of the posters dream up this idea of an impartial media? No such thing. Each has a point of view to propagate and the editors or news reporter wil be fired if they do not do as the owner or publisher wants. One of the biggest problems in Canada, USA and UK And many in the developing world. Guyana is a good example of how it is.

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