Knowing firsthand the trials and tribulations US deportees face once they arrive back in Guyana, city businessman Paul Giddings is urging the business community to welcome them with open arms and offer them jobs so that their lives can move in a positive direction.
Giddings, now 52, was deported to Guyana in 1996 after serving a 78-month prison term for a crime which he said he did not commit. Prior to that he had spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. When he touched down on home soil he was 35-years-old.
Today, seventeen years later, the father of three sits on a pillar of success which he single-handedly built from
