By Kevin Lindon
Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent
Email: kevin@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Guyana government says it will spare no effort in tracking down illegal immigrants entering Guyana, reportedly through Venezuela and Brazil.
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| Guyana’s Home affairs Minister Clement Rohee |
Guyana’s Home affairs Minister Clement Rohee said the administration will work the extra shift to have these persons prosecuted, since they may have a strong linkage to the illegal drug trade and other transnational crimes
During a recent media conference, Rohee said that local immigration authorities are on “the ball” investigating the reports.
He said the government will leave no stone unturned in ensuring those involved in this activity are captured and face the full force of the law.
The administration in the past had cause to deport a number of Chinese nationals who were in Guyana illegally.
In this case, the minister said the administration will not allow the situation of Nigerians, who are reported to be in the country illegally, to go down the same road, adding “government will spare no efforts in dealing with those involved in this illegal activity”
Meanwhile, government is partnering with Trinidad and Tobago to investigate reports of trafficking of Guyanese nationals between the two countries.
Rohee said that, here again, the Guyanese administration will not act in haphazard manner but will stay the course in breaking up any existing or potential human trafficking gangs.
“We are please with the co-operation and collaboration developed with the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago in addressing allegations of human trafficking of Guyanese between the Guyana and Trinidad network,” Rohee said.
A local inter-ministerial committee that has been set up to look at human trafficking met earlier this week and will release the first report of its findings shortly. |
