-following gov’t directed ban on ads in SN

By Miranda La Rose

Region Four councillors representing the PNCR-1G, AFC and Justice For All Party (JFAP) yesterday voted in favour of a directive for administrative officers to exercise fair play, transparency and equitableness in the dissemination of material to all media houses but PPP/C councillors abstained.

Regional Chairman Clement Corlette advanced the directive at a fiery meeting of the Regional Demo-cratic Council at the Provi-dence Community Centre, East Bank Demerara in the backdrop of the regional executive officer’s refusal to place advertisements with Stabroek News. Corlette said the directive was in keeping with Act 2 of 1980 of the Constitution of Guyana, Chapter VIII Local Democratic Organs, Section 75, which speaks of the autonomy of the RDC and the power to take decisions.