Guyana – Probe of Gold Being Smuggled

business or government agency that currently does not have internet service, or has poor or unreliable internet service, we can transform that very quickly.”

The second line of service provided by Neptune Communications is to provide genuine, redundant connectivity to companies or government agencies that already have fibre access to the internet.

Julian said: “This is where we believe there is a great deal of room for improvement. In the world of communications, there is something called cloud services. That depends entirely on very, very reliable connectivity. The best-demonstrated practice in the outside world is to find path diversity or redundant connectivity. So that if one method of connecting to the internet fails, there is a backup method that is entirely disassociated from the pri-mary method of connecting to the internet. In that way, the customer can be assured that their cloud services will continue to work.”

He said what Neptune Communications has done with its satellite-enabled internet service is establish “a clear, independent, secure robust path for internet services for Trinidadian business and government agencies that do not depend on any existing infrastructure in T&T. It is a genuine redundant path.”

The Neptune Communications CEO said chief information officers for big companies, who are responsible for ensuring that their networks remain online, no matter what, have to think about business continuity planning and redundant connectivity.

“And that is really where we shine,” said Jordan. On the issue of the speed of the satellite broadband service, he said the throughput speeds that are available by satellite now go up to 220 megabytes per second.

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC- Local authorities have launched an investigation following reports that Guyana’s gold is being smuggled into neighboring Brazil. This was revealed by Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday, as he responded to news reports out of Brazil earlier this month.

According to that report, the Brazilian Federal Police were searching for a Guyanese gold miner who is allegedly involved in laundering about US$16.9 million from illegal gold sales through shell companies in Brazil.

“….when we saw an article recently in Brazil, we had not been officially notified before that all of this gold was going into Brazil.

“In fact, we found it strange that our gold would go there, we were thinking that

Venezuelan gold was coming here but it doesn’t seem so,” said Jagdeo who was speaking at the press conference. Concerns were raised about a decline in local gold declarations over the past few years. Because of this, Jagdeo said the government started probing possible gold smuggling.With the recent report in Brazil, however, an official investigation is ongoing. Jagdeo said any miner found culpable will face the consequences, noting that “tough measures” will be implemented.

“A lot of the local medium scale miners, they get concessions from the government too and if they’re part of this racket, then they will face consequences too, as well, as those who are part of the export of the gold,” Jagdeo said.