Attorney at Law Anil Nandlall has on behalf of two PPP-aligned media houses challenged the legality of the governing board of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) and asked the Court to declare sanctions issued by the board as “unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, unenforceable, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, capricious, arbitrary, null, void and of no effect.”
In fixed date applications, filed on behalf of Freedom Radio and Multi-Technology Vision Inc (MTV), Nandlall contends that the last Board of the GNBA was appointed on February 1, 2017 by Prime Minister Moses Nagamatoo for a term of two years which has since expired without another Board of Directors being appointed or reappointed. In light of this fact Nandlall argues that the “Hearing Committee” which was set up by the board and which sanctioned the two media houses was illegitimate.
Additionally it is argued that the rules and guidelines used to sanction the media houses do not exist in law.
