The constitutionality and impartiality of the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting whichOpposition Leader Robert Corbinreportedly recommended an eight-month suspension for CNS TV 6 to President and Minister of Information, Bharrat Jagdeo, has come in for severe flack.And President Bharrat Jagdeo has come in for serious criticism by Robert Corbin who in his capacity as leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has called the Head of State a liar and has accused him of being dishonest and of misleading the nation.Jagdeo on Tuesday at the Office of the President had chided critics of the suspension. He said that he was acting on a recommendation by the ACB on which he said there was an opposition nominee when the recommendation was made.That opposition nominee was supposed to be Ron Case who was recommended by the opposition. But Corbin said that Case was pulled from the ACB since 2003. He said that Jagdeo was downright lying when he said that Case was a party to the recommendation to suspend Sharma.Corbin said that he will today host a media session and provide all of the details and evidence to prove that the Head of State has been deceitful to the nation.Prior to Corbin’s revelation National Executive Member of the Alliance for Change Cathy Hughes reiterated that former ACB? member, Case,Jerseys Cheap Wholesale, had not been on that body for several years.At an AFC press briefing at the party’s Head Office in Campbellville, Hughes questioned the impartiality of the decisions being made by the ACB in light of the fact that one member of the ACB had been absent since 2003 and was not replaced.Her party has also signed on to a joint position against the President’s decision to ban the television station for four months.President Bharrat JagdeoThis position is one adopted, according to Hughes, by the combined political opposition, along with the religious community, civil society and the trades union movement all of whom have expressed disappointment with the suspension of the broadcasting license.They believe that the “frivolous explanation proffered by the President is intended to cloud the real intention behind the suspension: the silencing of all voices of dissent.”“The very fact that the controversial Tony Vieira commentary was also aired on another channel, but no such action was taken against that channel, evidences the reality that CNS TV6 is the victim of sustained Government harassment and persecution…“Also,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, given the fact that this controversial commentary is currently engaging the attention of the Court,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, this suspension indeed flies in the face of the procedural sanctity of the judicial process.”Opposition elements including the AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan are questioning why the President did not wait until the outcome of that court action before coming to a decision.“The reality is that the suspension is purported to be done on the basis of the recommendations of the improperly constituted body of the ACB, the status of which is the subject of court proceedings, has to be seen as morally and legally repugnant…“The closure of CNS TV6 at this critical period, just before the holding of the 2011 General and Regional Elections can only be calculated to silence all voices of dissent.”The explanation that the President proffered in relation to the fact that the suspension had nothing to do with the election period did not find favour with the AFC. Ramjattan insisted that the president could have waited until after the elections to impose the suspension if the breaches were that egregious.The opposition did come in for a blow however when AFC member David Patterson reported to media operatives that a request by the Opposition to have the Guyana Elections Commission intervene given its role to ensure free and fair elections, met with a block.AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan (right) and NEC Member Cathy HughesPatterson said that GECOM said that it will have to seek legal advice to determine whether it has ‘locus standi’ to act in the matter.Ramjattan told this publication that as it relates to the ‘leniency’ by the Head of State, “Jagdeo’s statement justifying his sentence of the four months suspension of Sharma must be seen as petty and vindictive and an action which exposes his party and government for what they have become.”Ramjattan explained that the President wants to put a spin on the suspension saying that it was Sharma’s wife Savitri “whose will was completely sapped as one could imagine,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale,” got what they begged for.He was speaking to the fact that the president had said that it was Savitri Singh who had requested a four-month ban instead of the recommendation of the ACB.Ramjatt