Henry Jeffrey raps private sector over petition move

Dr Henry Jeffrey

Political analyst Henry Jeffrey has rapped the Private Sector Commission (PSC) over its petition to Parliament on the anti-money laundering bill and argued that its tendency to support the government will continue until constitutional and other arrangements are in place to allow it independent action.

In a column in Tuesday’s Stabroek News entitled `Private Sector Commission needs regime change’ Jeffrey argued that the PSC was caught in the grasp of an entrenched government with inflexible positions similar to its counterpart during the PNC era.

“Undoubtedly, there are some PPP/C acolytes in the PSC and it is also true that the organisation should be able to