Ramotar says best candidates chosen for national broadcasting board

-legal background key qualification

President Donald Ramotar yesterday defended the appointees to the governing board of the National Broadcasting Authority as the best candidates, while disclosing that a legal background was the main criteria used to make the selection.

“You needed people with legal knowledge, a legal background. You needed people with some experience on these issues so it was on that basis [that I appointed them]. These are people who I think would be competent people,” Ramotar said during a press conference in response to a query as to what the criteria for choosing the members of the Authority were.

Government announced earlier this month that the board of the authority, to