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GUYANA WORKING WITH U.S. TO PREPARE FOR RELEASE AND DEPORTATION OF CONVICTED DRUG LORD ROGER KHAN
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 18, 2019 (CMC) – The governments of Guyana and the United States are working together to prepared for the release and deportation of convicted Guyanese drug lord, Shaheed Roger Khan.
Khan, who is scheduled to be released from a US prison in July, has been serving a 10-year jail sentence for narco-trafficking and conspiracy.
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Immigrant Visas denied – as they could require government financial assistance
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – When Arturo Balbino, a Texas construction worker, walked into his visa interview at the American consulate in the northern Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez in March, he wasn’t nervous. He felt good.Balbino, a 33-year-old Mexican national who had entered the United States illegally 14 years ago, thought he had a strong case for a spousal visa: a wife and children who are U.S. citizens, a father-in-law who had pledged in an affidavit to financially support him if necessary, and a letter from his employer guaranteeing him an $18-per-hour job upon his return.
Guyana Nostalgia: Yu tink it easy?
– By Geoff Burrowes
The hilarious chronicler of all things Guyanese, Godfrey Chin, frequently asked this question. If I may borrow it, with acknowledgement to the author, I would like to apply it to the difficulties of emigration to another country. You may say with good reason “Who told you to go?”.
My aunt Doreen had invited us to stay with her and her son Mike if we ever moved to Canada. My mother and father-in-law had recently moved to Canada and Norma’s cousins the Ramphals and Kawalls had lived there for a while. I had a family of three fine boys, Brian, David and Ian and one of the things I hoped for them was that they would one day experience the joys of scouting, as I had! Continue reading
Jagdeo at Babu John 2019
The police indicated they are investigating a report that, on March 10 — at the Cheddi Jagan commemorative ceremony at Babu Jaan, Port Mourant — the Opposition Leader had said that “after the 21st of March, the government would be illegal and that if the President, David Granger, (Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo), if they come here, to chase them…because they are illegal”. Continue reading
April 16, 2019 – Letter from the Mayor of Georgetown. Guyana.
City Hall – Georgetown
Dear Editor,
IT IS with great surprise that I read an article published by I News, via social media, on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, captioned: “Mayor’s attack on city businesses that owe taxes “displeasing”
I wish to avoid the tedium of a verbose response except to say briefly, the following: As the Chief Citizen, I did not attack anyone. I simply made an appeal at a press conference for businesses to honour their civic obligations to the Council. No organisation that is committed to providing critical services can do so without the 3 Ms, money, manpower and machinery. It is the synergetic interactions of the 3Ms that translates into the provision of services to the citizenry.
Our records at Council reveal that both residential and commercial rate payers owe the Council rates in excess of $8B. This has affected the timely provision of services to the citizens of Georgetown. Continue reading
Belize: Put the National Interest First
Sir Ronald Sanders | Caribbean 360
BELMOPAN, Belize – Narrow party-political ambitions frequently thwart the wider national interest in practically every country.
The world is watching this play-out now as a public spectacle in Britain where the Brexit question continues to be deeply immersed in both personal political purposes and a struggle for the supremacy of one political party over another. At the end of it, Britain will be a much-diminished nation economically. It will also have little clout in the international community.
But it is not in Britain alone that this tragedy of political ambition over wider national interest is being displayed. On April 3, seven days before a referendum is scheduled to be held in Belize to determine if the country should take its border dispute with Guatemala for final arbitration to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the opposition political party, the Peoples’ Unity Party (PUP), obtained an injunction from the Chief Justice, Kenneth Benjamin, to stay it. Continue reading
City Hall – Georgetown
Apr 15, 2019 – Kaieteur News – Editorial
It is a good step to identify not only who; but how much and how long. For this is a large part of what has crippled fulfillment of the obligations of municipal government.
The whole dreary, enraging delinquent picture should highlight the disdain of those who capitalize on a lucrative presence in the city, and who persist in ways designed to decapitate it. Nothing can be free for so long; a sweet free ride it has been.
Long and costly delays; Decline of services; Resistance to new measures. All about how much to cheat. How much can be squeezed out of a system long lax, long negligent, and long colluding and corrupt. Continue reading
We must stand our ground and demand what’s justly ours
Apr 14, 2019
Irfaan Ali’s inauspicious start
April 14, 2019
Visa refusal and American intelligence on Guyana – By Freddie Kissoon
Visa refusal and American intelligence on Guyana
Apr 17, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
Even if you factor in applications from Cubans, Haitians and Chinese living in Guyana, the large percentage (almost 70 percent) of refusal for visitor’s visa for last year takes Guyana back to the 1980’s where there was a mere trickle of visa issuance.
If the US Embassy refused 70 percent of applicants for 2018 for non-immigrant stamps, it means that they are in possession of intelligence that guide the Embassy into the acceptance that Guyanese are fleeing and would renege on returning after their visit.
Very few countries see a 70 percent rejection. When that happens, the US concludes that recipients are going to stay illegally. Continue reading →
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