Corentyne Chamber President supports Sattaur’s call for evidence of smuggling

GRA Commissioner-General Kurshid Sattaur

The Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) is willing, in principle, to support the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) in its efforts to curb trans-border smuggling between neighbouring Suriname and Guyana, but needs to depend on its members to provide verifiable information for submission to the revenue authority.

“We are against smuggling and are prepared to cooperate with the GRA where solid evidence of smuggling exists,” UCCI President Vishnu Doerga told Stabroek Business in a telephone interview with this newspaper on Tuesday.

Doerga’s remarks came in the wake of a call issued