Guyana: Plans to Establish Intelligence Agency

GUYANA – Over in Guyana, plans are being made for the establishment of a national intelligence and security agency that will report directly to the president and deploy agents to foreign diplomatic missions.

This, as the government is preparing to pass new legislation to facilitate the agency.

The National Intelligence and Security Agency Bill proposes wide-ranging powers by the new spy agency to go after information in the possession of any public body regardless of any other law that presumably guarantees confidentiality.