Patrolling Guyana’s borders to prevent the entry of illegal weapons is a humongous task that Guyana cannot undertake alone, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has said, while highlighting the need for additional resources for the construction of police stations and watchtowers.
“We have seen an increase in guns coming in through the Brazilian porous border …that is a massive, massive border for which there aren’t plenty controls because of our limited set of resources. [Also] a number of these weapons are coming in some through the border with Venezuela, we understand, and they are then reaching other mid-Guyana townships like Bartica and so on and then they are being transferred out from there into Georgetown. So, it is especially
