Sunday, July 20, 2025
Village Voice News
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Village Voice News
No Result
View All Result
Home News

GRA secures $4.9M fine against chicken smuggler

– seizes in excess of $20M in uncustomed goods in another case

Admin by Admin
September 23, 2022
in News
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

A Magistrate in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, on September 22, 2022 ordered a defendant, Richie Shaw of lot 22 Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara (Padrak Poultry Depot), to pay a fine in the amount of $4,950,000 (three times the value of the goods seized) or to one year imprisonment in default of payment for knowingly concealing uncustomed chicken contrary to section 218 (c) of the Customs Act, Chapter 82:01.

The said defendant on that day, removed the smuggled chicken from its original ‘Rockingham’ packages and concealed same in black bags to evade and deceive law enforcement officers by ‘passing same off as local chicken’. The GRA however, with the assistance of the experts from the Veterinary Public Health Unit, Ministry of Health, managed to prove the contrary to the court, which led to the said conviction.

READ ALSO

FGM Condemns Public Sexual Assault at Soesdyke Bar

BREAKING: Figueira Backs President Ali, Joins Campaign After Quitting PNCR and Parliament

In a separate and ongoing matter, officers attached to the authority’s Law Enforcement & Investigations Division (LEID), on September 22, 2022 seized in excess of eighty-two (82) cases of smuggled liquor and over sixty-two (62) bales of cigarettes from a property at Atlantic Garden, East Coast Demerara, valued in excess of twenty million ($20,000,000) Guyana dollars. Investigations are ongoing.

The revenue authority, as it continues with a “zero tolerance” approach against smuggling and other illegal activities, thereby allowing for a ‘level playing field’ for legitimate businesses and the collection of revenue, once again, encourages persons involved in such activities to cease and desist therefrom, and bring themselves into compliance with the nation’s Tax, Trade and Border laws. (DPI)

ShareTweetSendShareSend

Related Posts

Amanza Walton-Desir
News

FGM Condemns Public Sexual Assault at Soesdyke Bar

by Admin
July 19, 2025

The Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) has issued a forceful condemnation of the recent public sexual assault of a young woman...

Read moreDetails
Jermaine Figueira
Breaking News

BREAKING: Figueira Backs President Ali, Joins Campaign After Quitting PNCR and Parliament

by Admin
July 19, 2025

Former Member of Parliament and longstanding People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member Jermaine Figueira has declared his full support for...

Read moreDetails
News Room photo
News

GHK Lall on Guyana’s Political Crossovers: When Movers Rise, the Faithful Fall

by Admin
July 19, 2025

In a sharply observant and bitingly reflective op-ed, columnist GHK Lall dissects the flurry of political crossovers ahead of the...

Read moreDetails
Next Post

Public school sweeper/cleaners offered full-time employment with gratuity, no tenure or pension


EDITOR'S PICK

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬: 𝐌𝐏 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧-𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚/𝐉𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐚, 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐞

May 21, 2023
New IDB President, Mauricio Claver-Carone

Trump assistant elected President of IDB

September 12, 2020
Former President David Granger

‘Diary of a bad year’

July 9, 2021

Foreign Secretary to supplant the minister 

September 1, 2020

© 2024 Village Voice

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us

© 2024 Village Voice