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Sep 05, 2009 News
By Gary Eleazar
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, (PNCR) Robert Corbin, yesterday lashed out at recent comments by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, wherein he stated that the police preferred to wait on the relevant documentation to proceed with an investigation into the alleged link between self-confessed drug dealer, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, and Government officials.
According to Corbin, while the information available on the US federal website, namely PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) was a representation of the official documents and could not be tendered in a court, the police or any interested party, on the basis of what is uploaded, could proceed to the relevant authority to obtained the certified copies that could be used as evidence.
Corbin said that the police did not have to wait for the conclusion of anything, given the fact that the documents are already in the public domain.
He urged that the public not be distracted by “Luncheonian shenanigans” emphasising that PACER reflects official US court documents.
He drew reference also to the sworn affidavit by George Bacchus that was uploaded on his party’s website, pointing out that it was a reflection of an official document which was handed over to the police.
According to Corbin, they (the administration), “fear to confront the truth….it exposes the administration.”
Alliance For Change Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, said that Dr Luncheon’s pronouncement illustrated the total contempt for the Guyanese people and dismissed his assertion as ridiculous.
He added that the information being posted on the PACER website provides a wealth of circumstantial evidence that could be built upon by local police.
Ramjattan also drew reference to when the CIA declassified documents as it relates to Arthur Schlesinger that could have been used to the advantage of the People’s Progressive Party. “They ran and got it and used it as evidence, telling the Guyanese what the US did in Guyana and to Cheddi (Jagan) in the 1960s.”
According to Ramjattan, the current documents on the internet are even more credible, given that they were all presented before a jury, witnesses testified and were cross examined, and the jury believed what was presented before it.
“When it suits them they go all out and get it…but now that these documents don’t suit them they don’t want to touch it, not even with a 40-foot pole.”
Dr Luncheon at his most recent press briefing noted that much of the information that will be used for the probe being called for, “ we will be using our own resources but a very important contribution will have to come from trials referred to.”
“Police have to investigate, but to investigate they need the support internally and externally.”
He reminded media operatives that the US has been written to some time ago, requesting information, but the local authorities were told that this will be made at the conclusion of the trials adding that, “on the basis of what comes out in ruling, maybe other agencies and individuals may be solicited.”
He was then informed that all of the court documents that he referred to were already available, given that the PACER service provides on-line access to U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide.
The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary’s centralised registration, billing, and technical support centre for PACER.
According to Dr Luncheon, “I suppose that you could (use the service) and it would be useful for Stabroek and Kaieteur News but I don’t know if it would be as useful to the police, as they prefer going to the authorities.”
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