Charge d’Affaires of the US embassy, Michael Thomas concluded in June, 2007 that the government lacked the political will to go after drug traffickers and he related to Washington how he was summoned by Dr Roger Luncheon over a tape which made corruption allegations against senior cop Steve Merai.
Commenting on the meeting with Head of the Presi-dential Secretariat Luncheon and the general drug situation, Thomas referred to a conversation between Presi-dent Bharrat Jagdeo and then Ambasador David Robinson where the former was alleged to have said that almost everybody in Guyana knows who the major drug traffickers are.
Said Thomas: “Despite this knowledge, Guyanese law enforcement almost never investigate or take action against narco-criminals, senior government officials socialize with notorious drug traffickers, and the
