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I have the same sense of trepidation

Apr 24, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Here is an observation that I have serious misgivings about, for good reason.  I had the same feeling about the so-called upmarket hotel being constructed in Kingston some years ago, and eventually felt compelled to put something in writing. It turned out that my ‘bad feeling’ was justified.
Like many of my contacts in the UK, I am a passionate Guianese, and when I read of the  Memorandum of Understanding with the Indian Government via its High Commissioner in Guyana, for the establishment of an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence in Guyana, to be based in the vicinity of UG, I had that same sense of foreboding.   The first thoughts that entered my head were “location, location, location”.  Or should it be “relocation”?
We have all heard about cyber crimes and online scams, and this is now big business in certain parts of the world, and people in the UK, particularly the vulnerable elderly, have been deliberately targeted.  Large sums of money have been taken from people’s accounts, because they have unwittingly handed over their account details, on the understanding that money was due them. Overnight those details were used in a scam.
Recently, I have had two late-night attempts at such ‘parlour tricks’ played on me, when I requested a change of password in my email details, and was taken on a roundabout route.  Then on the other occasion by my computer, with all my important records, being deliberately locked and then told that their IT technician would have to be paid for it to be unlocked.  Fortunately, I am a pensioner of the ISP and was able to let them know immediately, and they took appropriate action to stop foul play.  They were apparently unaware of the late-night tricks performed by their staff.
It then turned out that the UK IT-tricksters had contacts in India, and between the two groups there was a nice financial caper in operation.  A stop was put to this practice. Such a lucrative sideline needs another ‘location’, so poor Guyana may be just one suitable place to start (or continue).  My enthusiasm for the “Government of India’s perseverance in ensuring that we have this centre established in Guyana” is distinctly lukewarm.  Let us look carefully before we leap.
Geralda Dennison

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