GRA searches Nigel’s Supermarket containers

Nov 28, 2008 News

By Rustom Seegopaul
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), apparently under orders from the Office of the Auditor General, yesterday conducted a thorough search of one of eight containers filled with goods imported by Nigel’s Supermarket and stored at the John Fernandes Limited Container Terminal.
The search is supposed to continue tomorrow and sources have said that one container will be searched each day. The containers are said to contain groceries and some perishable items.
The search, said one of the persons at the Terminal, was much more thorough and rigorous than the searches which are usually conducted by the GRA. An examination is usually done of the contents of containers, but items are not usually individually examined, as was the case yesterday.
“They (GRA) usually check the containers, but their search is never this fine,” said a representative of the supermarket, adding that they were fully complying with the Revenue Authority.
Representatives of Nigel’s Supermarket, who were present during the search, explained that there had been no visible damage to the goods inside of the containers. However, the representative said that the rest of the containers will be searched in the coming days, and the possibility existed that damages could occur while the other containers are searched. However, one of the supermarket’s representatives explained that while no damage was visible, it did not mean that none had been done. He explained that many of the items in the container, which comprised primarily foodstuff and household items, had inner bags inside of their individual packaging, which may have become ruptured.
The management of the supermarket explained that the disheartening thing is not the search, but the fact that the containers had been sitting on the wharf for two weeks now. “The containers have groceries,” explained the management of the supermarket. “You can’t just leave them like that for so long.” The management highlighted that a lot of the groceries would have to be discarded once the container had been cleared. “Things like yogurt you can’t just leave out like that for two weeks; they will have to be discarded,” said the management of the supermarket.
Concern was also raised over the way the containers would be repacked; and if the same level of care would be taken to repack them as when they were initially packed before they were shipped.

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