Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon says that administration is currently constructing a building in the compound of Castellani House that is “intended to house the entity that will be responsible for the intelligence work of the administration of the Guyanese government.”

Responding to a question at a press conference held yesterday at the Office of the President, Luncheon disclosed that the new facility will serve as a body that will be doing regular intelligence work such as relating to crime and issues relating to national security. He disclosed that this is in no way intended to “stand down” the intelligence entities that currently exist within the police force, the army, CANU, the Guyana Revenue Authority of the Guyana Energy Agency.

However, he added that the national position will depend on pulling all these resources of having a body that will be coordinating and pulling together intelligence information.

He pointed out that what is much of what is intended via this entity already exists but it is distributed via different structures.

Quizzed as to who would be in charge of this new entity, Luncheon said that it could be the Office of the President or the Home Affairs Ministry.

He also clarified that the entity is not being specially to deal with the wire tapping law that the National Assembly passed over a year ago.  Dr Luncheon said that the “intercept law provides for technical aspects to be done elsewhere,” in response to a question.