Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd says authorities are currently investigating reports of a fighter jet belonging to Venezuela operating, unauthorised, in Guyana’s airspace.
The event is reported to have occurred in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). A video showing the jet flying over some trees is making its rounds on social media. The video was reportedly captured by a miner.
Minister Todd could not divulge any information other to say that the matter is being investigated. He noted that the top officials are being briefed by the country’s security forces.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hugh Todd, yesterday met virtually with Acting US Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Julie Chung and notified her of the recent incursion into this country’s airspace by two Venezuelan fighter jets.
Yesterday’s meeting was the highest known contact between Georgetown and the Biden administration which took up office on January 20 this year.