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Sep 09, 2014 News
… will not make public its licence until all others do
Every Government Ministry and department runs on iNet Communications infrastructure and services. These include the Ministry of Finance’s Budgeting and Planning section.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of iNet Communications, George Melville, maintained that his company has been licenced to operate in the telecommunications industry.
Asked to make the document public to quell any confusion over the company and its operations, Melville said that iNet Communications alone would not make its licence public. The only way the company would make the document public, is if all of the players in the industry agree to publish their licences at the same time.
Melville said that a telecommunications licence can be transferred upon sale of the company. The previous shareholders of iNet Communications made an offer to Global Technology which purchased the shares.
At that time, iNet Communications’ owners were Louis Holder, Noel and the late Sheila Holder; David Klautky; Clifford Reis, Managing Director of Banks DIH; and Raymond Shay.
Melville made it clear that the iNet Communications Telecommunications Licence was never transferred to Global Technology…rather it was the shares purchased.
The licence, he said, remains under iNet Communications.
There will now be questions over those many Government contracts and the procedures use to grant Global these.
Global Technology acquired iNet Communications in January 2013 shortly after Dr. Ranjisinghi ‘Bobby’ Ramroop would have become a director and shareholder in the company. It was incorporated in 2006 and struck off of the companies’ list on many occasions.
Ramroop is the best friend of former President Bharrat Jagdeo and has been implicated in a number of questionable arrangements related to companies he owns or has controlling interest, including New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC) and the Guyana Times Inc., among others.
At the time when Ramroop joined up with Global Technology, one of his close associates and partners, Roopnarine Ramcharitar, also joined up.
In October 2013, Ramroop’s secretary, Valerie Khan, was appointed Company Secretary for Global Technology.
Ramroop and Ramcharitar were appointed directors early last year January and a year later, iNet Communications which falls under the rubric of Global Technology, rolled out the nation’s fastest satellite service covering the entire landscape.
Global Technology’s customers, according to Melville, includes the Government of Guyana; Ministry of Finance; Parliament Building; Supreme Court; Director of Public Prosecutions; Guyana Defence Force; Guyana Police Force; Public Service Commission; Police Service Commission; Office of The President; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Deeds Registry; Georgetown Public Hospital; Office of The Ombudsman/Appellate Court; Ministry of Human Services/Labour; Teaching Service Commission; Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport; Ministry of Agriculture; Ministry of Local Government; Ministry of Home Affairs; Guyana Elections Commission; Office of the Auditor General; Ministry of Education; Machinery Corporation; Demerara Mutual Life; Acnet Café; Laparkan; American Embassy; UNICEF; Citizens Bank; Banks DIH; Pegasus; Caricom; Guyana Forestry Commission; Millenium Café; Guyana National Industrial Company; Stabroek News; Bank of Guyana; GuySuCo; National Insurance Scheme; Project Dawn; Caribbean Containers Inc; Caribbean Airlines; Peace Corps; World Bank; Carter Centre; Correia’s Mining; MMC; Evergreen Adventures; Farfan and Mendez; Gerald Fusum; Japarts; Jen Mahadeo; Kenwin Charles; Odyssey Transportation; Oldendorff Carriers (Guyana) Inc; Pauline Philips; Splashmins Fun Park; St Mary’s Quarry; Steven Faria; and Georgetown Public Hospital Centre.
Melville said, too, that he is unsure whether the status quo will remain after Government rolls out its E-Governance projects. He refused to speculate.
Meanwhile, Head of the E-Governance Project, Alexei Ramotar, is on record as saying that when that project comes on stream, it will not be a case of providing Government with access to the internet. As such, he surmised that the arrangement between iNet and Government might continue in future.
According to Ramotar, the E-Governance project is meant to give access to the public, to government services, as well as interconnect the agencies.
He said that the interconnected network will link Government services to allow persons to access them. It is not a case where the E-Governance project will be providing internet access to Government.
There have been questions over the phenomenal growth of Ramroop’s companies in doing business with Government.
He was not only granted radio frequencies which affords countrywide coverage, while a number of applications from prominent media houses were ignored, but has hands in the supply and control of drugs to the Government; in the transportation sector with a significant chunk of the Berbice River Bridge; in the media business with television and newspaper; in the advertising; in the pipe-making business and even printing and cricket.
His companies have a close relationship with Government, with accusations from the Opposition that other local businesses are being deliberately overlooked in favor of Ramroop’s. There are also a number of court cases regarding the drug supplies, in Guyana and in the US courts.
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