Draft pact on smuggling between Guyana, Suriname under review

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is currently reviewing a draft agreement for Mutual Administrative Assistance between Guyana and Suriname as part of its anti-smuggling efforts, a release from the GRA said.

Both countries have put border control mechanisms in place to stop contraband and other transnational crimes and they have established port control units to control inbound and outgoing containers by improving real time exchange and analysis of information, after signing a MoU with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the release stated.

At a two-day meeting held on January 16-17, GRA Deputy Commissioner of the Law En-forcement Programme,