The Customs racket: No one is protected!

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Last Tuesday President Bharrat Jagdeo made a clinical pronouncement on graft and corruption. In response to a question raised at his press conference about the recent Customs/Fidelity alleged fraud he read what appeared to be nothing short of a ‘riot act’ that is  designed, it appears, to remove what is widely believed to be one of the oldest – and, for the businessmen and Customs officials who have benefited from the practice – most lucrative forms of corruption in Guyana. …..


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