AFC MP Cathy Hughes on Wednesday signalled that her party will not approve of the use of taxpayers’ money if the National Communications Network (NCN) and the Government Information Agency (GINA) were to remain as “propaganda agencies” of the ruling PPP/C administration.
“…Let the PPP pay for this as none of the opposition political parties in this house have asked that Guyana’s tax dollars be used to pay for their in house PR campaigns,” Hughes said on day three of the budget debate.
She argued that the $200 million of taxpayers’ money that the government has set aside to “promote itself is not only bare talks but it is only PPP talks….it seems the only group that can secure airtime on NCN is the government…No one really knows what GINA does and how whatever it does is supposed to
