For the first half of the year, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has recorded a 76% increase in illegal fuel seized.
According to a press release issued by the agency, for the period of January to June of 2016, the Fuel Marking Division seized 6,200 gallons of fuel although it added that while the amount of illegal fuel seized has increased, the number of confirmed incidents has decreased, with there being 15 recorded incidents for the period as compared to 22 from last year.
It said too that the
