Joint Services ranks stationed at Guyana’s Eteringbang border outpost have been put on alert following a visit by Venezuelan legislators to the area earlier this week.
At his post-cabinet press briefing on Thursday, Head of the Presidential Secreta-riat Dr. Roger Luncheon said that in light of the recent attention being paid by the political opposition in Venezuela to Etering-bang and the bordering Guyanese communities, such interest has been noted and that the Joint Services ranks stationed there have been put on alert.
Venezuelan newspaper El Universal reported on Monday that a group of Venezuelan opposition deputies travelled to the Essequibo, the target of a border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela, in “defence” of Venezuela’s sovereignty. According to the report, the deputies departed from Tumeremo on Sunday and headed to
