Most Guyanese deportees are from Trinidad– Statistics

Aug 02, 2016 News

More than 156 Guyanese have been deported from Trinidad and Tobago between a period in 2015 and June 2016.
The figure represents the highest number on the list of countries from which Guyanese have been deported. This is according to statistics presented to the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee attended by Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge and Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, on Wednesday last.
The data indicated that about 119 Guyanese were deported for overstaying their time in the Twin-Island Republic.
Twenty- six persons, who entered the Island illegally, were also banished. Sexual Assault, Common Assault, Attempted murder, possession of firearm and narcotics and robbery, are just some of the other crimes linked to Guyanese who were deported from Trinidad.
Suriname deported 134 Guyanese; the neighbouring South American nation ranked the second highest number of Guyanese deportees on the list.
Guyanese were sent home for various illegalities including overstaying, illegal entry, money laundering and suspected bank fraud.
Meanwhile, some 60 Guyanese were sent home from Barbados. The minimal number of deportees came from the Bahamas, Antigua, Jamaica and the USA. In February, 26 persons were deported from the United States. Many of them served time in US jails for serious criminal offences, narco-trafficking and robbery.
In January 2014, a total of 20 persons were deported by the US. Many of those returning to Guyana may have left their country of birth at an early age and on their return, often find difficulty in coping with the new environment. As such, many have claimed that the ‘involuntary remigrants’ often contribute to social and criminal problems.
But Trinidad appears to remain at the top of the list of destinations from which Guyanese are being sent home. Last year, the Trinidad Express quoted the Attorney General Anand Ramlogan as saying that statistics from 2010 to October 2014 showed “the number one country with deportees from Trinidad and Tobago is not the African continent, not India, but Guyana.
“Seventy African deportees in four, nearly five, years against 734 Guyanese” Ramlogan had said.

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