| CN Sharma…says broadcast in question was “reprehensible” to the constitutionA broadcast on CNS 6, which has caused the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB) to recommend suspension of the station licence, contained statements which were reprehensible to the constitution ,Brett Favre Falcons Jersey, President Bharrat Jagdeo said Friday.As a result, Jagdeo is still to decide if he will go ahead with the ACB’s recommendation, almost a month after he summoned station owner, Chandra Narine Sharma, and his wife, Savitri Singh, to meet with him.Kaieteur News understands that the ACB had determined that Sharma’s licence should be suspended for six months after the station had aired a commentary by Anthony Vieira which made some damning allegations that Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission, Bishop Juan Edghill,Cheap Arizona Diamondbacks Jerseys, found disturbing last May.The television owner had apologised, but Edghill,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Free Shipping, nevertheless, filed a motion against both Sharma and Vieira seeking more than $50M in damages.Lawyers for Edghill, Anil Nandlall, Euclin Gomes,Argentina National Soccer Team Jerseys, and Manoj Narayan, in their motion had stated that the “Bishop” had suffered “tremendous embarrassment, distress and ridicule” by the commentary.But President Jagdeo said the matter was beyond Sharma and Edghill. The President said that he read the transcript extensively, and both Sharma and his wife had accepted that “people are responsible for their broadcast.”“The contents are reprehensible to our constitution,” Jagdeo said of Vieira’s commentary. But not only was it against the constitution of Guyana, the President said the contents of the programme infringed significantly on the conditions of the licence under which Sharma operates.Jagdeo related that in the programme,World Cup Jerseys 2018, Vieira claimed that Swami Akshrandan had told him (the President) to take a Christian channel off the air, “implying that there was some kind of Hindu conspiracy.”The President said he never had any such discussion with the Hindu leader, and therefore the statement by Vieira was “offensive” and designed to create discord among people of different religions, which is forbidden in the laws of Guyana.Jagdeo said that the Christian channel (Channel 72) was illegally taken over by Vieira, and this led to the cancellation of the licence.In addition, in the commentary, Jagdeo related that Vieira claims that there was a conflict between Pentecostals and Catholics, and that Bishop Edghill was not doing enough to safeguard Catholics.Again,Chad Williams Jersey, Jagdeo said this statement sought to create discord among denominations in the Christian community and was therefore “reprehensible” to the constitution.“This is a serious matter and I am giving it consideration,” Jagdeo declared.Sharma had been sanctioned before for comments aired on a live programme, but in this case, Jagdeo said the television owner cannot make that claim since Vieira’s comments were made during a taped programme. |
