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Despite slashing the budget of the National Communications Network (NCN) Incorporated and the Government Information Agency (GINA) to Gy$1 while in Opposition, the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Government in the 2016 National Budget allocated and subsequently approved a whopping Gy$170 million for NCN and Gy$150 million for GINA, reflecting a more than Gy$50 million increase in their subventions over last year’s allocations.
Director of Public Information (DPI) Imran Khan, who operates out of the Prime Minister’s Office, had said that it was not the job of GINA to cover the Opposition, a stark contradiction to the argument that the APNU/AFC used as the basis for cutting the agencies’ budgets.