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Aug 29, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wish to bring not only to your attention but to the attention of the Foreign Affairs Minister and also the general public about a breach of service that was offered by the staff of the Suriname Embassy located in Queenstown.
My sister who does not wish her name to be in the newspapers engaged the service offered by the said Embassy to obtain a copy of a birth certificate for a senior relative who was born there but lived here in Guyana for a number of years and was married to a Guyanese.
She was told that the cost would be $6.000 and that it would take six months before she can obtain the copy of the birth certificate. The money was paid and six months came and went. Two visits on different occasions after the time expired and she was told that they would make inquiries and call her. She finally decided to ask for a refund for the fee paid for it has now over one year since she applied for the said document.
When she visited there a few days ago, she met and talked with a male staff that had promised to call her on one of her previous visits but did not do so. To her surprise when she asked for the refund he boldly told her that is why we tell people to go to Suriname to get the document themselves and that they cannot refund money yet these people took a fee for the service offered when she went there to inquire how the document can be obtained with the help of the Embassy. My sister has a receipt.
Editor I am quite sure this is not an isolated incident and before anyone else falls victim to this nonsense that is being carried out there, I am making this public so that no one else would be made to lose $6.000 dollars for a ghost service. A report was made to the Albert town Police Station but she was told it was a private matter. I am asking the Foreign Affairs Minister to investigate this non-existent service being offered there.
Aggrieved citizen

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