THE Private Sector Commission (PSC) said it was “astounded” to learn that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has opposed a motion put to the Parliamentary Special Select Committee considering the Anti-Money Laundering Legislation for the Committee to be opened for the PSC to have an ‘observer’ presence at the meeting. PSC, in a statement last evening, said it wishes to state that, at a meeting held with APNU on 10th December, 2013, with regard to the delay in the passing of the AML/CFT Amendment Bill and which was reported in a PSC Press Release on 20th December, 2013, APNU gave an unqualified undertaking to support the PSC proposal “that the meeting of the Special Select Committee be held in public”, facilitating observer attendance by the PSC, the media and, if they wish, representatives of Labour. The PSC made the same proposal at a meeting held with the Alliance for Change (AFC) on 18th December, 2013, to which the AFC indicated they had no objection. The PSC said it finds it inexplicable that APNU would now renege on its undertaking made at a meeting chaired by its leader David Granger and “considers this to be a disturbing display of bad faith on the part of the major Opposition party”. The PSC has requested an urgent meeting with APNU on the matter.