Local authorities may have had no idea that Guyanese businessman and popular motor racer Peter Morgan was on the United States’ wanted list since for Guyana, access to such information is provided on a need-to-know basis, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon said yesterday.
And Dr Luncheon said he doubts whether any mechanism is in place under the single domestic space arrangement for the ongoing CWC games for the United States or any such country to make a standard submission to all of the Caricom territories simultaneously.
Asked at a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday whether Guyana had access to the US list of Guyanese, Luncheon said the US government or international agencies dealing with criminal matters, “pretty much determine which jurisdictions they would serve [with] notices of intending criminal interventions or actions to be taken by the authorities.
“So it could very well be that even without informing Guyana specifically about the Guyanese who had been indicted or is the subject of an indictment [they] could inform Trinidad or Jamaica depending on the decision made by either the international agencies, Interpol or the British, Canadian, US