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Travelling from St Martin

Oct 01, 2015 Sports

Dear Editor,
Guyanese traveling on a Guyana passport can enter Dutch St Marten if they have a U.S. Visa. The same does not hold true if a Guyanese is entering or leaving the seaport Marigot on the French side of the island.
Though not legally permissible, a Guyanese can travel between the two halves of the island and do business or pleasure without hindrance from the French authorities, but can’t enter or leave from Marigot. Sad to say they are subjected to the most dehumanizing conditions.
I know of one Caricom official who was subjected to such treatment and the army was called in.
The official wanted to leave St. Martin to visit an adjoining island by the ferry. She had to return to the Dutch side and travel by air to Antigua and then to the island which she intended to visit. What would have been a fifteen minutes journey by ferry took two days with hotel stay in Antigua.
One cannot blame the French authorities as they are doing a job and Guyanese are not the most welcomed people in other parts of the Caribbean.
Recent news is that Guyanese can visit Russia without a visa; so why can’t they visit tiny St. Martin.
I feel the Guyanese government can make some representation to the French authorities to allow Guyanese access to Marigot under the same conditions as access to Queen Julianna Airport on the Dutch side of the island.
Much obliged for your support and for one more freedom of embattled Guyanese.
C.B. Singh. M.D.

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