With the local news media gaining a greater foothold in the new digital frontier, the Guyana Press Association (GPA) is urging journalists to remain cognisant of political realities while seeking to preserve truth.
In a statement yesterday in observation of World Press Freedom Day, being marked under the theme “21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers,” the GPA said that while access to newer media is welcome, the absence of proper broadcast legislation and the administration’s reluctance to open the electro-magnetic spectrum to private radio stations are throwbacks to era that is believed to have passed. “The sloth to enact the Freedom of Information Bill is hopefully not a harbinger of maximum administrative delay,” it added.
Also, the GPA said it was regrettable that it could not report any change to the status of its President Gordon Moseley, who is still banned from pursuing his work at the taxpayer-funded Office of
