GECOM restarts media monitoring unit

Steve Surujbally

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has resuscitated its Media Monitoring Unit (MMU), in hopes that it would contribute to “the needed peace” during the upcoming elections period.

The MMU will be operational from Monday, GECOM’s Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally told a news conference at Hotel Tower, on Main Street yesterday, while observing that this year has seen “the resurgence of the publication of inciting articles/comments in the print and electronic media.”

He noted that there has been an increase in public comments associated with this year’s general and regional elections, some of