Ahead of Venezuela’s parliamentary elections this weekend and the busy Christmas shopping season, government yesterday announced that it had launched Operation Dragnet, a massive countrywide anti-crime and counter-terrorism operation.
“It is a Joint Services operation which the joint services … [and] other agencies will be conducting with effect from December 1 to June 2016,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon told a post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday.
He explained that after briefing Cabinet on his recent visit to Malta, President David Granger reiterated the need for the preparedness of Guyana’s citizenry as regards security from a holistic standpoint. Harmon said the populace should not consider Guyana as a territory that is