Georgetown : The fate of CNS TV 6 licence will possibly be determine when the station owners CN Sharma and Savitree Sharma meet with the Minister of Information President Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday at 3pm.
This afternoon the Sharmas receives an envelope hand delivered from Office of the President containing two documents. One was signed by the Head of the Presidential secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon on an Office of the President’s letter head inviting the Sharmas to a meeting with the President.
The letter stated that the meeting pertains to a broadcast on May 4th, 2011, commentary done by Anthony Vieira which focused on inaccurate, unsubstantiated and misleading statements about a complainant and offensive statements about other Guyanese active in religious faiths.
What was surprising to the TV station owners was another five page document which stated claims of breaches of the station licences recommended by an Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB) dated back to 2002.
The last paragraph of that document stated “ on the basis of the review and with specific regard to the May 27th 2011 recommendation of the ACB regarding the May 2011 breach, I now advise that I have decided to impose a one year suspension of CNS Channel 6 licence with immediate effect, failure to comply with which would lead to revocation.”
The Sharmas believed that the five page document was suppose to be handed to them at Friday’s meeting since it had no signature attached to it nor letterhead. The document may have mistakenly reached the hands of the TV station owners with information of a one year suspension.
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