Drugb posted:caribny posted:. To get a simple valuation of property, if you didn't grease the palm of the engineers and his boss, your application would be delayed for months on end.
Oh yes we have had several issues like this when we were selling off various properties in Guyana. One of the buyers even paid the bribe as he was tired of the delay. He paid it as he lives in Guyana and so would have been "charged" less than an overseas based person would be.
This is why I laugh when one person is singled out. The ENTIRE system is corrupt and corruption reaches down even to the simple task of trying to get a birth certificate.
No other Caribbean country is that corrupt. In those places it would be business people and customs or real estate developers seeking permits.