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Guyanese refused entry to Trinidad PROTEST TREATMENT By Nathalene DeFrietas FIFTEEN Guyanese, who travelled to Trinidad on Monday and were sent back here, have alleged that they were insulted by immigration officers at Piarco International Airport. |
The rejected travellers raised concerns yesterday at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Eve Leary, Georgetown, declaring that, in contrast to how they were treated, Guyanese are hospitable to all visitors. PASSENGERS’:
Some of the irate passengers who were refused entry to Trinidad at Police
C.I.D. Eve Leary Headquarters yesterday. (Photos
by Adrian Narine) One passenger called for the intervention of President Bharrat Jagdeo, because of the slurs uttered to them. Policeman-Tucker-freed
RICARDO
Bayley “The immigration officers in Trinidad told us that we were coming to Trinidad because our President does not have time with us…he only has time to travel to different countries and Guyanese are going to Trinidad to steal their jobs.” Petition
to Parliament Fire-Eccles-house
Blind-raped-killed “They
treated us like dogs and, when they come here, we welcome them with hugs
and kisses. This is really unfair to us Guyanese and something should be
done,” declared Danny Hughes, who went to be interviewed for employment. He
and others, who were on a similar mission, displayed invitation letters
that were sent to them by the Managing Director of the prospective
employer, Mr. Samuel Joseph. According
to them, on their arrival in Trinidad, they were informed by an
immigration officer that the company, TERRAERIN, no longer exists and they
all had bogus documents. Ms.
Gwendolyn Yearwood, who arranged the interviews, said the immigration
officers were dishonest, because she spoke to Joseph who told her he was
on his way to receive the interviewees. She
said, when the man went to the airport, he was deprived access to the
persons he expected. The
vacationers, amongst them a man who was going to stay with an aunt, were
also deported. “I
had the address where she is living and they sent me back. I asked them to
call her, so that they would know it is not false but the immigration
officer said that the number was unanswered,” the nephew, Delroy
Alexander said. The
passengers said no explanations were given to them for their deportation. “As
soon as they saw the green passport, they started turning down people and
insulting us. One of the officers said that he turned back 150 people from
Guyana for the year,” said Mark Saul. All
the rejects flew on the Caribbean Airline flight which departed Guyana at
05:30 h on Monday, May 26 and they arrived in Trinidad around 07:00 h but
were refused entry and deported back at 21:30 h. They
were made to wait at the airport for their documents and had nothing to
eat or drink during the hours they waited and the officers were hostile to
them when they requested to use the sanitary facilities, the complainants
stated. “They
had us waiting there from morning to night before they gave us something
to eat but nothing to drink. We could not even go to the washroom. They
had us locked down like if we did something wrong. This is totally
unfair,” Yearwood protested. Some of the others also alleged that their baggage was left behind and misplaced and they vowed to take the matter further. Wednesday,
May 28, 2008 |
Robert Corbin was the man in charge of the electoral machinery during the PNCs regime and also the person in charge of rigging. Both Burnham and Hoyte (1985) would have been very grateful to him for his services. (Indo Caribbean World)
Shridath Surendranauth Ramphal and Mohammed Shahabudeen laid the foundation for the Burnham dictatorship - the beginning of the destruction of Guyana from which we have never recovered. They have both feathered their nests and left us with the problems they engineered
Haseeb Ramjohn - Guyana Chronicle