Guyana’s fight against the global drug menace

Nothing to shout about

drug.jpgGuyana Review publishes the main body of the US State Department’s 2008 Inter-national Narcotics Control Strategy Report on Guyana. Only the brief summary at the commencement of the report has been excluded.

More than two years after launching its National Drug Strategy Master Plan (NDSMP) for 2005-2009, the Government of Guyana has not effectively implemented it. Cooperation among law enforcement bodies is fragmented and minimally productive; weak border controls and limited resources for law enforcement allow drug traffickers to move shipments via river, air, and land without meaningful resistance.