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Sep 18, 2014 News
George Melville, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of iNet Communications, boasted that the entire government is supplied
with internet service by the company. However, more and more entities are distancing themselves from the telecommunications outfit owned by Global Technology.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, was the first when he distanced Office of the President from the company saying that the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) Company supplies that entity as well as for the One Laptop Per Family Programme.
Melville had listed a number of companies including the Audit Office of Guyana, the Guyana Elections Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture as well as the privately-owned Stabroek News.
Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, following checks with his Information Technology department informed this publication that his office is supplied with internet service through GT&T.
A senior official at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) also confirmed that its internet service is provided by GT&T.
According to the official, iNet Communications was invited to make a proposal on how they can increase the connectivity of the Commission but it never went past this stage.
The official insists that following the ‘gaffe’ there was no movement towards iNet providing GECOM with internet service and rather internet service is supplied to the Commission through GT&T.
A Government Ministry has also denied being serviced by iNet Communications.
Permanent Secretary within the Ministry of Agriculture, George Jervis, has also sought to distance that entity from iNet Communications.
According to the Permanent Secretary, the Ministry’s internet service is supplied by GT&T and not iNet Communications as had been alluded to by the Company. Melville had also listed among his customers, Stabroek News.
This publication made contact with a senior official at Stabroek News yesterday and following checks with the relevant department it was reported that the media outfit is supplied with internet service from GT&T and not iNet Communications.
Dr. Luncheon, last week denied knowledge of the existence of iNet Communications.
He said that at least at Office of the President it is GT&T that provides internet services for that entity.
Dr. Luncheon told this publication he can clearly testify to the fact that each month he would sign documentations for payments to be made to GT&T for the provision of internet service.
When questioned about iNet and Melville’s brag of supplying the entire government of internet services, Dr. Luncheon appeared to be at a loss. He enquired who Melville was.
Melville last week boasted of supplying every Government Ministry and department including the Ministry of Finance’s Budgeting and Planning section.
Melville supplied a list of customers which iNet Communications would service inclusive of Office of the President.
Global Technology acquired iNet Communications last year January 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 in which he has controlling interest, including New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (New GPC) and the Guyana Times Inc.
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.
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