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Intelligence Monitoring and the Politics of the PSC

Dec 13, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
In this letter I address two important aspects of our evolving culture, intelligence surveillance and the Politics of the Private Sector Commission.  The public interest in both these topics need not be emphasized.
Intelligence monitoring in Guyana has been practiced for some time in Guyana. To the best of my knowledge, this was conducted initially under the good graces of the Guyana Civil Defence Commission and the Private Sector Commission, inclusive of the two telephone companies, which combined their technological resources to monitor just about anyone in whom they happened to develop a particular interest. This includes their employees as well as their contacts and possibly, and very likely, also their competitors, and critics of the PPP and their alliances as these become available.
Responsibility for all of this has probably been transferred to the new intelligence organ of the Guyana Police Force, although I am sure the PSC and its underlings still keep track of their own persons of interest and news breakers.
Monitoring is conducted in three dimensions:
1. Your phones
2. Your computers and logins, being identifiable on the net, are all tagged.
3. Through the recently closed circuit TV monitoring system installed in all businesses and throughout the public thoroughfare and road network. Anywhere cameras are installed is very likely linked to the central monitoring system of Guyana’s CIA.
An understanding of the politics of Guyana’s Private Sector Commission at this juncture of our history would be more than useful in the current environment.  The PSC comprises major businesses across Guyana, some of whom are supportive of the PPP administration, others who are not.
Recognizing the beast that they have to contend with in the form of the PPP, they naturally have to play ‘suck-up’ and ‘I’m with you all the way.’ So they choose from among themselves, not necessarily the chairman or CEO of any of their members, but individuals who are either outright PPP supporters with at least some leverage with the PPP, or other individuals capable of negotiating and maintaining productive diplomacy with the PPP.
The primary objective of the PPP is to maintain a strong, positive, productive working relationship with the tyrannical PPP in the face of latent disapproval of its policies and programs within its own ranks.
My take on the current chairman is notwithstanding his relative lack of popularity, he does have an air of genuine commitment to sound business practices, and could very well be instrumental in reshaping these within Guyana’s private sector, in addition to possibly playing a greater role in improving governance within government now and in the future.
I just can’t seem to get around the latest ‘release’ by the PSC being so misplaced, out of context and irrelevant. He might want to play a greater and more studied role, and apply his personal touch to future discourses with and about the PPP administration.
Craig Sylvester

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