Georgetown yesterday maintained that the Venezuelan army had fired on employees of the mines commission traversing the Cuyuni River on May 30th and blasted Caracas for not replying to Guyana’s diplomatic note protesting the incident.
In a statement, Guyana was responding to a press release issued by the Venezuelan Embassy on Friday, dated June 6th, denying the May 30th incident.
The Guyana government also challenged Venezuela to get the facts from its military about the shooting of the Guyana Geology and Mines Com-mission (GGMC) employees saying that it believes that with just a bit of investigation of its servicemen posted at the location where the incident occurred, they would have verified the reports and gotten an explanation.
