The Guyana Learning Channel (GLC) will now be used to broadcast programmes of national interest along the lines of development support communication.
This is according to a memo sent to GLC staff by its Executive Director Dr Seeta Roath and seen by Stabroek News.
In the memo Roath states that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of Education Dr Rupert Roopnaraine have agreed to this new programming schedule.
Speaking with Stabroek News from New York, Roath explained that the GLC is currently the only television station that has the capacity to reach every populated part of Guyana which makes it ideal for the airing of programmes for public education.
“GLC is 100% education. Our programming is apolitical and non-commercial. We are also the only television station that currently has the capacity to reach every populated part of Guyana so as long as it’s not politics and it’s public education we will air it. We are curriculum based so we have the formal and informal curriculum being aired as well as general public knowledge,” Roath explained.
At a meeting with the Education Minister’s Personal Assistant Siroj Persaud and Director of Public Information Imran Khan it was decided, according to the memo, that the Government International Agency GINA will provide programmes of national interest with no political or commercial content for airing on GLC.
The first of these programmes which are expected to be between 45-60 minutes long will be aired this weekend.
This weekend’s programmes will be the Jubilee programme from around the country followed by agricultural extension videos from GuySuco. The presidents weekly public interest programme which is billed a prepackaged programme about development issues not political issues is also scheduled to be aired as are documentary and special features of regional developments.
These programmes will be aired Monday to Friday from 10.30 pm to midnight and on Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 1 pm and from 6.30 to 7.30 pm.
