Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Board Rawle Lucas yesterday announced a major shake-up in the management of the tax body, including the removal of the heads of its Customs and Human Resources divisions for unsatisfactory performance and the appointment of a Deputy Commissioner-General.
Speaking at a press conference in the presence of senior staff, Lucas said that Jameel Baksh, the Head of the Customs, Excise and Trade operations, and Archana Joshi, Head of the Human Resource Manage-ment Department, had been relieved of their duties. “We were not satisfied with the extent to which our revenues were being collected with respect to our customs operations and felt that it was perhaps in the best interest of the organisation to make some changes,” he later said, when asked about the reason behind their removal.
Lucas identified Lancelot Wills, an international trade lawyer and son of the
