A senior State Department official is to take to the US government, President Bharrat Jagdeo’s new proposal for the establishment of a permanent branch of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Guyana. .
Asked whether the US had any intention of setting up a DEA office here, visiting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Thomas Shannon, said yesterday at the Office of the President that he was taking such a proposal back to the US with him.
