Illegally imported horse quarantined

Dr. Dwight Walrond, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority with the horse that was illegally imported. (DPI/GINA photo)

Customs officers while clearing a ship at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) wharf at Port Georgetown yesterday afternoon discovered that an illegally imported horse was on board.

A release from DPI/GINA said that officials of the Guyana Livestock and Development Authority (GLDA) were notified and immediate action was taken.

The authority carried out preliminary investigations at the wharf on where the animal came from and found that the condition it was being kept in was