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Nov 05, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
Please allow me to express my views on a statement made by Mr. Adam Harris in his ‘’My Column’’ feature and which concerns an issue of immense public and national concern.
Mr. Harris wrote, ‘’I was surprised that very few people realized that the Samsung phone has a feature named ‘call recorder’. It is a useful feature because it allows everyone to record all calls. As a reporter I found it so useful because I could not misquote.’’
This quote is in reference to the now ‘’famous’’ taped conversation between a Government Minister and a senior newspaper reporter.
If a reporter records a conversation that was directed to him then he has committed NO offence known to our existing laws.
The telephone services themselves provide for incoming calls to be recorded with the introduction of the telephone answering machines, and now these services are included automatically on the purchase of certain ‘’sophisticated’’ telephone instruments.
What is of enormous concern to me is the serious act of misleading the nation that is taking place by the authorities trying to classify the recording as ‘’Interception of a call’’, or a breach of the “privacy laws’’.
In fact, the recording, if it was done by Mr Gildarie as the recipient, fell in NONE of the above categories of criminal offences.
If the recording was done by Mr. Gildarie, and if Mr Gildarie is still on the job as an employee of the Kaieteur News, then the recording takes on a more sinister character of being ‘’Primary Evidence’’ of a very serious criminal conspiracy of which Mr. Gildarie, himself could be a victim.
Mr. Gildarie had made a Criminal complaint to the police, and he can back it up with good evidence, primary evidence.
His complaint should be acted on and the necessary protection should be offered to him, and to everyone concerned. There is no ‘’rocket science’’ to this.
However, the real problem to the society occurs when the ‘’Primary evidence’’ operates to link someone for whom others could be directly and inadvertently linked to a serious criminal conspiracy, through the principles of ‘’Cabinet Collective responsibility””, then the picture changes immensely.
The entire cabinet and the government can find themselves looking down the wrong side of what can be known as an ‘’informal referendum’’, with the people of a republic calling for the resignation of the entire government.
I can understand the need to confuse the issues, but not everyone is this easily fooled.
With Best Regards,
Yours faithfully,
Juliet Holder-Allen (LL.B)
Attorney at Law.
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