THE Staff of Government Information Agency (GINA) and the National Communications Network (NCN) have become a target for bomb threat for a second day.

“While these threats identify with a pattern during the National Budget season, the management of these two entities views these with absolute seriousness,” NCN and GINA said in a joint statement last night.
NCN and GINA have since heightened security measures with priority emphasis on employees’ safety.

On Thursday, the Bomb Squad, sniffer dogs, fire fighters and police all raced to Homestretch Avenue which houses a large section of the government’s communications arm, NCN Radio and Television and GINA.
The security forces were responding to a bomb-scare which was received by the transmission operator who transferred the call to the receptionist.
The Guyana Chronicle was told that the person who called the entity is a male.
The caller said there were three bombs on the premises, and if anyone tried to leave, one of them would be detonated. Then if one bomb was triggered, the other two would go off in an hour.
Management was alerted and the staff was immediately evacuated,
And yesterday, at about 17:00 hrs, the receptionist of NCN reportedly received a telephone call from a male caller, who claimed that bombs were on the premises.
NCN and GINA have since heightened security measures with priority emphasis on employees’ safety.