On Ramsaroop’s allegations of political motivation behind spycam bust
PEOPLE”s Progressive Party (PPP) General-Secretary, Mr. Donald Ramotar, denounced as “utter nonsense” the contention by the Alliance For Change (AFC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Peter Ramsaroop that the raid by the police on the apartment rented by his tenant, Ms Nicole Ming, had political connotations. Ramotar said that he first learnt of the matter from reports in the media and that these accusations of political motivation and victimisation when politicians are caught in wrong doing of any kind are used merely as a form of self-defence and they lay blame on innocent parties.
According to Ramotar the allegations made against Ramsaroop are extremely serious and, if proven true, constitute abominable violation of people’s privacy, which is protected in Guyana’s Constitution.  He added that these charges are serious enough to warrant a comprehensive and exhaustive investigation.  However, he is adamant that the investigation be conducted procedurally and that all the regulations determining due process in matters of this nature be rigidly adhered to.
Ramotar said that no one is above the law, but that the laws must be enforced in conformity with established guidelines as mandated by Guyana’s rule of law.
“The PPP does not have to resort to subterfuge to win the support of the people, because the track record of the Party while in successive governments speaks for itself,” Ramotar said.
Ramsaroop, who was recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of the AFC is being accused by his tenant, 19-year old Nicole Ming, of installing cameras in the apartment she rented from him to spy on her.  She has also expressed fears that he may have been filming her at private and unguarded moments and making pornographic material which allegedly he puts on the internet.
Ramsaroop, who formerly worked as a computer consultant with the Pentagon in Washington, says that the three hidden cameras that were discovered – one in a clock in the apartment and two focused in the teenager’s bathtub and bed, had been installed while the apartment was being used as an office.  He said that the wires had been cut.  However, the cynics are saying that the wires, if they have been cut, were done so subsequent to the discovery of the cameras to use as a means of defence, because the teenager reported seeing a pinpoint of a light after Ramsaroop had borrowed her keys to purportedly rectify some electrical flaw which alerted her to the probability of being spied on electronically.
Ming is also contending that she had replaced a battery in the clock two weeks ago and that there was no camera hidden there at that time.
Ramsaroop is currently on $20,000 bail pending investigations.