Seeing each other as scapegoats

Jay Jordan, born and bred in Canada, embodies a Guyanese story that we could easily lose. It’s the story of a lost generation, folks who picked up and left this land in the ‘60’s, that first wave of migrants who fled their homes for foreign lands.

Waves of migration stifled our development through the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and ‘90’s, and a 21st century wave continues today, with family sponsorship now a big part of the cause.

Alien smuggling to the US and Canada became a huge pillar of the