Dear Editor,
A mother of a backtrack victim is urging Guyanese to reconsider sending their relatives to North America ‘backtrack.’ Her experience with backtrackers has become a nightmare for her. The mother lost her son in April when he drowned off the coast of the Bahamas while travelling on a boat in a smuggling attempt to the reach the Florida coast of the US.
The devastated mother wanted to re-unite with her son whom she had not seen for eight years, believing he would have a better life in America. The boat in which the victim was travelling broke apart in high waves. Several people drowned including a Guyanese computer engineer.
