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Apr 25, 2015 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
I noted with alarm, recently, news that a businessman was robbed while in the compound of a commercial bank at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. He was reportedly told by security guards at the bank that they are only responsible for customers inside the bank, not what is happening outside.
I understand also that the police asked the bank for copies of the surveillance videos taken of the incident but were rebuffed.
We know of the challenges facing our businesses and homes in Guyana. Citizens have been forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ensure security measures are in place. We are literally prisoners in our homes. We know of cases where people, including children died in their homes, because of grills and other heavy security.
So here it is that a businessman was reportedly accosted and had his cash taken away in the bank’s compound. How come this was not considered as bank’s premises?
What logical reasons exist in which the bank can refuse to provide the police with its surveillance tapes?
One would assume that the surveillance cameras are there for a reason and one of these is the possible assistance to the authorities in case of a crime.
As a businessman who knows full well the dangers out there, I ask that the bank rethink their refusal and do the right thing…the correct thing.
There are thousands of customers that have accounts at the bank and in my estimation it can only be considered arrogance that the tape is being refused.
If the bank cannot release it, then it would mean that this revered institution is arrogant and has no respect for its customers. Maybe I will think of closing my account.
I will await a week and probably be the first one to close my account in protest…and publicly.
I am also bewildered over the operations of commercial banks in Guyana.
Imagine we are moving from being a developing country into one that will become a powerhouse in the future. Yet we have banks operating like it is the 1960’s.
Our business dealings have changed. We are doing business with Japan and China in the nights, and Skype and other communication tools have place the world at our fingertips.
In the US, banks open 24 hours. Yet we have banks closing 2pm daily. Why not move to open on Saturdays and even on Sundays?
We have to start think out-of-the-box.
There have been talks about a Chinese bank coming to Guyana. Maybe it is time we encourage them to speed up the process. Maybe we will see a change in the attitude of our banks.
Cobeer Persaud
Jan 31, 2025
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