Back in 2007 former Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira was seen by US Embassy officials in Georgetown as “fighting a lonely, uphill battle against fraud and corruption in the Ministry of Home Affairs.”
Former US Ambassador Roland Bullen in a February 9, 2006 diplomatic cable, now made public on the Wiki-Leaks website, had said that was a “shocking lack of control” over the country’s registry, visas, and passports presented narco-criminals, smuggled aliens, and potential terrorists with an easy way to obtain travel documents.
He said in two meetings, on
