There is indeed a very glum outlook

Apr 18, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I note Freddie Kissoon’s article on US visa applications in which he suggested “it would help the researchers too if the Embassy would publish statistics of how many visitors remained in the US in 2017.”
As luck would have it these figures are available and show that of the 68,760 “expected departures” of persons issued with non immigrant visas for that year a total of 2,262 were suspected to have overstayed their visit – a rate of 3.29%. Many would see this as very low and indeed it is in the range for Caribbean and Latin American countries. So it would be difficult to conjecture that the sharp decline in the issuance of non immigrant visas in 2018 was triggered by overstays.
I would say to Freddie that there is indeed a very glum outlook among PPP supporters towards Guyana and many even better off Guyanese have migrated in recent years. Much of this is due to them believing the drum beat of alarm and pessimism from the PPP aligned media.
It’s strange given the strong growth in the economy 4.1%, strong sales by all the big local companies, increases in bank loans and most notably declines in crime.
Life goes on. Governments are not saviours and after 23 years when clearly not much was done for the working class it is hard to see how a PPP government would be much different if they ever make it back into office.

Yours sincerely
Albert Russell

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