Today 6/26/2009, Officials located over two kilos of Cocaine at Cheddi Jagan International Airport that was postmarked for Canada. The substance was found on routine scan by airport officials. The sender name on the package was a woman and the address was a location in Kitty but no one by the name on the package lived there.
Over the past couple of weeks I been talking about Guyana and the stigma now attached to Guyana as the hotspot for narcotics that it has now become. Guyana according to Al Jazeera is now a global hotspot for cocaine trafficking. The cocaine that leaves Guyana more often than not is headed to North America as in the case above or Africa.
It seems like every day or so you hear of individuals being busted for cocaine smuggling, many of them North Americans. The video below highlights what I am speaking about. I have called on the President of Guyana to address this issue at the United Nations and seek global aid in ameliorating this developing problem. However, it seems like every issue that occurs in Guyana falls on deaf ears because I have not heard once yet of the administration discussing this problem except when Al Jazeera briefly interviewed Clement Rohee who is the Minister of Home Affairs.
Andrew
