Building a healthy democracy

In this Information Age where knowledge ranks as the top traded commodity in the global village, our society seems deformed and dysfunctional. For we lack access to sensible, intelligent conversations that contribute to the national debate about the challenges we face as a nation.

With one radio station under inept state control, with a taxpayer-funded national newspaper that scorns the ethics of professional journalism, with local TV programming of the poorest quality of production, the society is caught in the vice of an information drought.

Ideas, opinions and sensible commentaries contribute solutions to problems. We see the value of information sharing in democratic