{"id":4483,"date":"2013-04-09T17:35:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T22:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2013-04-09T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T22:38:19","slug":"withdraw-all-jagdeo-issued-radio-frequencies-now-nagamootoo-knews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Withdraw all Jagdeo-issued radio frequencies now \u2013 Nagamootoo (KN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cThere will be no compromise on this matter\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former People\u2019s Progressive Party \u2018Big Wig\u2019, Moses Nagamootoo, yesterday called for the withdrawal of all the radio frequencies that were recently handed out by former President Bharrat Jagdeo, declaring that there will be no compromise on the matter. Delivering his contribution on the 2013 budget debate, Nagamootoo, who now represents the opposition Alliance For Change, said that there is a serious conflict of interest with regards to the allocation of frequencies. \u201cIt is disgraceful and scandalous. This is naked nepotism,\u201d Nagamootoo declared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaieteurnewsonline.com\/images\/2013\/04\/NAGAMOOTOO-p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NAGAMOOTOO p\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kaieteurnewsonline.com\/images\/2013\/04\/NAGAMOOTOO-p.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AFC Member of Parliament Moses Nagamootoo<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, just before he demitted office, President Bharrat Jagdeo doled out radio frequencies mostly to close associates of the ruling PPP\/C regime, in a move that Nagamootoo also described as lawless and discriminatory, since the process was not transparent. The Broadcasting Bill was passed in the National Assembly on July 28, 2011, and assented to in September, 2011. President Jagdeo distributed the frequencies days before the November 2011 elections. One recipient, Telcor &amp; Cultural Broadcasting Inc., whose principal is Ruth Baljit, the sister of Robert Persaud, was granted five radio frequencies in November, 2011. New Guyana Company Ltd., publishers of Mirror newspapers also got five frequencies. \u201cThis is the company for which I worked as a journalist for some 22 years,\u201d Nagamootoo told the National Assembly. According to the AFC Member of Parliament, at present, the Mirror\u2019s press is non-functional. The newspaper has been out-sourced for printing by Guyana Times, owned by Jagdeo\u2019s best friend Bobby Ramroop, \u201cand the printery, hived off to Ed Ahmad, a convicted felon in the USA, and friend of Mr. Jagdeo.\u201d Nagamootoo went into a bit of history, explaining that the New Guyana Company Ltd. was first registered on October 30, 1959 as Company No. 657. For many years the Directors were Bissessar Jairam, Charles Jacobs, Derek Jagan, George Robertson, Earl Maxwell and M. Poonai \u2013 all deceased. \u201cThere are two other names currently associated with this company. One is Haripersaud and the other is Donald Ramotar, who is named as Secretary. Need I say anything more?\u201d Nagamootoo asked. \u201cIn addition, multiple frequencies have been allocated to Dr. Ranjisinghi \u2018Bobby\u2019 Ramroop, Mr. Jagdeo\u2019s friend. Then in 2010 there were cable licenses given to Brian Yong and Vishok Persaud,\u201d he added. Nagamootoo reminded the National Assembly that except for a few, all the recipients of radio frequencies are connected with the PPP; are themselves high state officials, and are associated with Government leaders as \u201ccomrades, friends or relatives\u201d. He referred to a newspaper article dated March 24, 2013 which reported the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, as describing the allocation of frequencies as \u201cobscene\u201d. \u201cHe said, \u2018decency, commonsense and good governance dictate a reversal of the allocations\u2019,\u201d Nagamootoo stressed. \u201cThe spectrum is our limited national resource, a public property. It could be a great money-earner. It must not to abused or given away willy-nilly,\u201d said Nagamootoo, who then referred to a famous case in India to solidify his point. \u201cIn India, auction of wireless broadband brought in US$12 billion in 2010. But before that, in 2008, 2G spectrum frequency allocation for mobile telephone was handed out to friends in a massive scam. Big people went to jail. \u201cThe Stabroek News on April 2, 2013 reported that the Supreme Court of India declared the allocation \u201cunconstitutional and arbitrary\u201d and quashed all the 122 licenses issued in 2008. The court found that the Minister \u2018had gifted away an important national asset\u2019. The scam of India is now haunting Guyana!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere will be no compromise on this matter\u201d Former People\u2019s Progressive Party \u2018Big Wig\u2019, Moses Nagamootoo, yesterday called for the withdrawal of all the radio frequencies that were recently handed out by former President Bharrat Jagdeo, declaring that there will be no compromise on the matter. Delivering his contribution on the 2013 budget debate, Nagamootoo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews","category-parliament","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-1aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}