THE Guyana Revenue Authority on Friday held its 18th lottery draw for the random selection of imported declaration.

The process is one which allows members of the public to volunteer just a few seconds of their time to select one out of several dozen names with serial numbers for shipments which arrive at various wharves.

The Guyana Revenue Authority continues to encourage members of the public to participate in its random selection for import declarations.

As part of its drive to build public confidence and foster transparency, members of the public yesterday randomly selected five shipments for checking and profiling at city wharves.

Communications officer Fabien Clause told the Guyana Chronicle that the process is conducted two times weekly, which gives customs officers a total of ten shipments to be checked.

He reminded that on the day the randomly selected shipments are up for inspection, members of the public and the media are usually invited to witness this process.

Members of the public have been assisting the process since its launch several weeks ago. However, based on the assessment of this newspaper, many persons who were asked to randomly select shipments for examination did not seem aware of the process.
The ignorance of persons about the new system of the GRA, which actually replaces a computerized system, proved that more needs to be done by the Guyana Revenue Authority to publicise the new method.
By Leroy Smith