The army yesterday disclosed that further checks by soldiers in the Corentyne area where an illegal airstrip was found unearthed a camp with foodstuff and a generator.
Colonel General Staff, Bruce Lovell said no one has been arrested but the GDF continues to carry out further checks.
The Guyana Defence Force believes that the illegal airfield which its troops destroyed on Monday was being operated by foreigners with local collusion to facilitate trafficking of narcotics.
Lovell told Stabroek News that it is clear that foreigners were operating the airstrip located some 80 miles upriver from Orealla Village. Asked why the military did not detect the airstrip earlier given the amount of clearing that had occurred, Lovell said that their pilots would normally fly at 10,000 feet and it is difficult to detect such activities from that height. He said however that on Sunday when the airstrip was detected the pilot was flying at 8000 feet. In addition, Lovell said that army did not always fly in that area and that too would have resulted in them not noticing the airstrip earlier.
Security experts say that the police and the army need to conduct more surveillance along border locations. “Surely if they were patrolling in that area they would have seen that airstrip
