Guyana remained ranked at 58 on the Press Freedom Index 2011-2012, the Reporters Without Borders organisation said in its tenth annual report, while pointing out that radio broadcasting remained a monopoly.
The report, released this week, likened conditions in Guyana to those in Trinidad and Tobago, where the ranking had slid to 50; down 20 places from the previous year as a result of a scandal involving spying on journalists, as well as moves to boycott radio and television stations and procedural abuses.
The Guyana government had announced earlier this month that it was liberalizing radio by
