Newspapers abide by media code

Despite overwhelming positive coverage of the incumbent by the state-owned newspaper, the print media did not commit any ethical breaches of the media code for the elections in the almost month-long campaign period leading up to the general elections, according to the Guyana Elections Commission Media Monitoring Unit (MMU).

“…[T]here were no observed ethical breaches of the Code as it relates to the publishing of information that is racially inciting, divisive, inflammatory etc., for which the media is