GUYANA’s intelligence community has noted the recent attention being paid by the political opposition in Venezuela to Eteringbang and the bordering Guyanese communities. 

“This interest is in the context of their attitude to Guyana’s Essequibo,” said Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday. He was speaking at his regular post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President in Georgetown.
According to their published plans, Luncheon said their members, particularly their legislators, have undertaken to visit and have been visiting Eteringbang, accompanied by elements of the Venezuelan paramilitary establishment.
“Our joint services detachments in the location have been made aware of these planned visits and they have been ordered to remain vigilant in the context of such visits.”
Meanwhile, legislators who have been identified from opposition parties in Venezuela have had at least one visit so far to the area that has been documented by Guyana’s security and intelligence services.
“It has been a visit that accords with all of the rules and regulations that govern the visit and movement across the borders,” Luncheon noted.

(By Telesha Ramnarine)