Trouble in the House…
– Speaker begs to differ
LEADER OF the main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Mr. Robert Corbin, yesterday, in the National Assembly, raised objection to what he claims are acts of “discrimination” by State-owned media operatives. He alleged that State-owned operatives, in particular the camera crew of the National Communications Network (NCN), set up their equipment in such a manner as to prevent adequate coverage of the National Assembly’s proceedings.
By that he meant that the way the cameras are set up, they are unable to fully, or, as was inferred, ‘adequately’ record what is happening on the opposite side of the House, meaning the side occupied by members of the opposition.  
Taking him up on the matter, Speaker of the House, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, told the opposition leader that his objection was invalid, since the NCN’s cameras were set up at three strategic locations in the House.
He however asked the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr. Sherlock Isaacs, to address the issue of equitable coverage with media operatives, expressly the camera crews.
Corbin, at several Parliamentary sittings, has been heard to complain informally about the inequity in the coverage given to the opposition parties in the National Assembly.