THE Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) wishes to join with other national institutions and individuals, expressing alarm and condemnation over military movements close to the Guyana/Venezuela border, emanating from Venezuela. The reports received by this union also alluded to a Venezuela naval presence in the Cuyuni River.
The union is alarmed though not entirely surprised over this development. It fits into a pattern of hostile acts, wanton aggression and naked eye-pass. This union is of the view that Venezuela has no intention of desisting from its sustained attempts at intimidation despite the fact that the boundary between our two countries has long been determined and settled.
We believe, too, that Venezuela is bent on applying economic pressure by ramping up its spurious and absurd claims even as Guyana seeks to take advantage of its hydrocarbon resources.
If our national posture in response to Venezuela’s sustained provocation must continue to be informed by restraint, we must simultaneously embark on a robust and assertive intentional diplomatic initiative designed to communicate to Caracas the total and complete rejection of its claim.
Here at home, we believe that there is an urgent need to up the tempo in the matter of sensitising the Guyanese nation to Venezuela’s most recent machinations.

GUYANA PUBLIC SERVICE UNION