Illegal guns tied to fuel, drug smuggling

A top security expert here believes that Guyana’s troubles with controlling illegal firearms are tied to its inability to stamp out the rampant smuggling of fuel and drugs across its borders.

And even as the region’s police chiefs recently concluded that they lacked the capacity to detect the movement of illicit weapons through established ports, the security expert who asked not to be named expressed the view that insufficient focus for arresting the problem was being directed to the right quarter.