Amid jitters over Sunday’s prison break, the private sector yesterday met with Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and heads of the police and prisons and the point was made that this government should not have disbanded the Law and Order Commission.
After the meeting, Private Sector Commission (PSC) member Gerry Gouveia told reporters that the dissolution of the bodies by Ramjattan may have led to decreased intelligence gathering and ultimately to last Sunday’s prison riot and razing of the Camp Street Prison.
Gouveia said it was time for the APNU+AFC government to relook at both.
His views and others issues were discussed at the meeting of the PSC and members of civil society with Ramjattan and Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels and Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson. The meeting was held at the Georgetown Club.
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