GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):
THE PEOPLE'S National Congress Reform (PNC/R) and embattled Police Commissioner Winston Felix are under more pressure here following last week's broadcast of another wiretap conversation.
The phone conversation allegedly contains the voice of the commissioner in a conversation about a plot to plant drugs on a person suspected of having stolen funds from the opposition PNC/R.
However, the party has denied that any member of its staff was ever arrested or detained at the airport with any drugs, as some media houses here are alleging.
The phone conversation, the second to be broadcast here in about two months, has further divided the country along racial and political lines.
NUMEROUS CALLS
There have been numerous calls from persons, believed to be linked to the governing People's Progressive Party (PPP), for Felix to resign while the PNC/R and other sections of the public are rallying behind the embattled commissioner.
On Friday, Prime Minister Sam Hinds wrote Felix, demanding an immediate response to "certain complaints" made against him.
In a terse and vague statement issued through the Government Information Agency (GINA), the government said: "In view of certain complaints, accusations and/or allegations being made against the commissioner of police, the Prime Minister Samuel Hinds has written to the commissioner of police bringing these allegations to his attention and has requested him to respond, immediately."
Felix returned from an overseas trip on Saturday but it was not immediately clear whether he has responded to the government's demand.
