Rohee set numerical limits on missionaries

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee told the US Embassy’s Political Chief on January 28 last year that the Ministry of Home Affairs had set limits on the number of foreign missionaries allowed into Guyana, according to a cable dispatched to Washington on February 16, last year.

The move had come in the wake of a well-publicised detention by the police of Mormon missionaries for overstaying their time here.

In a cable released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Charge d’Affaires Karen Williams reported that Rohee had said the limit of 15 was negotiated between the Mormons and GoG “and that