A United Nations (UN) anti-corruption agency has proposed to assist Guyana with a UN prosecutor on corruption to ensure thorough investigations of such crimes in the future.
Regional representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Amado Philip de Andres said yesterday that after being stone-walled by the previous PPP/C government on corruption discussions, the response from the APNU+AFC government has been positive and finalized proposals coming out of discussions could be implemented as early as year-end.
“It is also important to mention that with the previous government, the UN had a lot of problems because the Government of Guyana is party to the United Nations Conven-tion against Corruption and now we are reviewing the implementation by the Guyanese authorities of this convention.