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Alerts - Guyana

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Guyana

TV station suspension delayed

IPI welcomed news that the suspension of CNS TV6 would not prevent the station from broadcasting in the run up to the 28 November elections, but the group maintained its call on President Jagdeo to lift the ban entirely.

Guyana

President orders TV station off the air ahead of elections

President Jagdeo suspended CNS Channel Six for a four-month period following a comment made by an opposition parliamentarian during a programme.

Guyana

Leading TV journalist banned from president's office

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the government's discriminatory decision on 13 July 2008 to declare TV reporter and producer Gordon Moseley persona non grata in the office of the president, and supports the efforts of the Guyana Press Association (GPA) to resolve the conflict as soon as possible. Moseley works for Capitol News, a privately-owned TV station based in Georgetown.

Guyana / Bermuda

Television station suspended, government advertising in daily resumed in Guyana; Bermudan government denies critical newspaper advertising contracts

(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is an abridged IAPA 15 April 2008 press release:

Guyana

Government's withdrawal of advertising threatens survival of "Stabroek News"

(IAPA/IFEX) - The following is a 25 may 2007 IAPA press release:

Guyana

Daily "Stabroek News" suffers total boycott by state advertisers

(RSF/IFEX) - Guyana's leading daily, "The Stabroek News", has learned it is now under a total effective boycott by state advertisers after the Government Information Agency (GINA) on 6 February 2007 cancelled advertising space booked in the paper for the Guyana Revenue Authority. Since November 2006, this was the only body still placing advertising in "The Stabroek News". Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) and Guyana Power and Light - two public companies under private management - have also decided not to advertise with the paper. The management of the two companies, while denying having acted on the orders of GINA, did not offer any explanation. The government itself referred only to "accounting reasons" before refusing to respond to protests from the Guyana Press Association.

Guyana

State-owned companies follow government's withdrawal of advertising for newspaper

(IPI/IFEX) - The following is a 6 February 2007 IPI press release:

Guyana

Government punishes critical newspaper by withdrawing state advertising

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Guyanese government's withdrawal of virtually all state advertising from the "Stabroek News", the country's leading privately-owned daily, and its refusal to respond to the initiatives taken by the newspaper in response to this discriminatory measure.

Guyana

New information emerges about motives behind the "Kaieteur News" killings

(CJFE/IFEX) - The following is a 22 August 2006 CJFE press release:

Guyana

Four slain, two wounded in vicious attack on printing plant

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 9 August 2006 CPJ press release:

Guyana

Opposition journalist gunned down in Georgetown

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced shock at the news that journalist Ronald Waddell, a former talk-show host on HBTV Channel 9, was gunned down outside his home in the Georgetown suburb of Subryanville on 30 January 2006. Waddell was also an opposition activist who was outspoken in his criticism of the current government.

Guyana

Television station suspended for indefinite period

(RSF/IFEX) - In a 31 January 2005 decision, the High Court ordered the suspension of CNS Channel Six television station, as an interim measure, until the court issues a ruling on the constitutionality of the government's decision to suspend the station's licence for one month.