Jamaican ‘backtracker’ said he was led astray by girl

A Jamaican who said he entered Guyana illegally on the advice of a Guyanese who told him he could go through the `back track’ was on Monday fined $40, 000 by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

Accepting the July 18 charge, thirty-one-year-old Steve Anthony Reid, who said he usually comes to Guyana to buy clothes and shoes,