Stabroek News
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The Stabroek News is a privately owned newspaper published in Guyana
.
It was first published in November 1986, first as a weekly but it later changed to a daily print. The entry of the paper into the mass media
in Guyana brought out a new openness to the media environment in the country.
It was founded by David DeCaires
, who died on November 1, 2008.
Stabroek News is also the sole distributor of DirecTV Caribbean in Guyana.
There has been some controversy recently as illegal distributors of DirecTV Caribbean in Guyana have not provided services to those who have paid for it. http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2010/05/11/berbicians-cry-fraud-over-directv-service/
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
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It was first published in November 1986, first as a weekly but it later changed to a daily print. The entry of the paper into the mass media
Mass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
in Guyana brought out a new openness to the media environment in the country.
It was founded by David DeCaires
David DeCaires
David de Caires was a Guyanese solicitor. He was also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News.Trained as a solicitor, de Caires founded Stabroek News in 1986 with the help of his wife and Ken Gordon of the Trinidad and Tobago Express...
, who died on November 1, 2008.
Stabroek News is also the sole distributor of DirecTV Caribbean in Guyana.
There has been some controversy recently as illegal distributors of DirecTV Caribbean in Guyana have not provided services to those who have paid for it. http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2010/05/11/berbicians-cry-fraud-over-directv-service/