Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says that government has no authority over the Police Service Commission (PSC) and it would not be responsible governance for the Donald Ramotar administration to pronounce on the recent promotion of the two police officers who tortured a 15-year-old boy in 2009.
Rodrigues-Birkett told a press conference on Wednesday that during Guyana’s presentation at the recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva, Switzerland last week, this particular case was not brought up because the promotion of the officers happened in January this year and the reporting period was from 2010 to 2014.
Her statements followed remarks by Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon last week that appeared to support the promotions. Attorney General Anil Nandlall later said Luncheon was only expressing a comment on the promotions process and not the merit of the promotions.
Rodrigues-Birkett emphasised that the administration has no control over the PSC,
