Bruce Lovell is leading a three-member Com-mission of Inquiry (CoI) that has been set up to probe the interception, detention and subsequent release of an unnamed vessel that was in Guyana’s sea space last month.
Brigadier (Ret’d) Lovell, Assistant Commis-sioner of Police (Ret’d) Winston Cosbert and Christine Bailey, who serves as Technical Advisor to the Ministry of Presidency and Economist to the Cabinet, were sworn in by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the George-town Magistrate’s Court 1 yesterday.
No specific details were provided as to the nature of the circumstances surrounding the vessel’s detention, or what specifically prompted an investigation on this scale, but according to the 15-point Terms of Reference (ToR), the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will be made to answer about the course of action taken by both bodies in the matter.
