GECOM to meet NCN for more air time for contesting parties

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to hold talks with the management of the National Communications Network (NCN) to review its offer of five minutes of free programming per week for parties contesting the elections on the state-owned radio and television.

The move follows complaints by opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and opposition party Alliance For Change (AFC), which say they are being virtually shut out from the airwaves in favor of the government and the ruling Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).

GECOM Chairman Dr. Steve Surujbally told a media conference yesterday at Cara Lodge, Quamina Street, that the