CNS-TV6 has been suspended

Guyana: TV station suspended for four months for rebroadcasting threats against president

The privately-owned TV station CNS-TV6 has been suspended for four months for rebroadcasting a caller’s threat to kill President Bharrat Jagdeo. The suspension took effect on 12 April and will last until 10 August. The suspension was imposed by President Jagdeo himself in his capacity as information minister. The threat was made on 21 February by a man who called the station’s “Voice of the People” programme and said he would kill the president if armed gangs ever killed his family. Despite a warning issued by the body responsible for supervising media content, the station broadcast the threat two more times, on 22 and 23 February. The Guyana Press Association has condemned the suspension, saying the president could not be injured party and judge in the same case.

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Sharma, head of Guyana-based TV channel, CNS Television Channel
6, is set to file a motion in the High Court today against a government ordered suspension of his station`s license. The station’s license was again suspended Friday night by the Bharrat Jagdeo government after a caller to the station claimed she was going to kill the President.

`If anything is going to happen to my family, I am going to kill Jagdeo,` the caller to Sharma’s popular ‘Voice of the People’ program reported said, in commenting on the murder of several people in Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara.
A government statement Friday said a decision was made to suspend CNS` license for four months since it was found that following a hearing, the `licensee was found to have committed serious infringements of the conditions of the Licence by broadcasting on four occasions, including three rebroadcasts, of content that advocated the killing of the Head of State and Government`

The leader of the opposition, Robert Corbin of the Peoples National Congress Reform has criticized the suspension and called it an alarming development, according to the Guyana Stabroek News. Sharma for his part, says apart from the court motion, he is also planning a peaceful march today to protest the latest suspension that has befallen his station. On January 20, 2005, Sharma’s station had been closed down for a month when staff of the National Frequency

Management Unit seized all his equipment. The station was also closed down for two days in December 2002.

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