Guyana, Barbados agree on system to handle immigration concerns

Barbados’ Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Maxine McClean speaking to reporters yesterday

Guyana and Barbados yesterday agreed to formalise a system for handling immigration concerns, while at the same time both countries hailed the drop in complaints by Guyanese over mistreatment by Barbadian authorities.

“We have agreed, as ministers, that an MOU would be concluded to cover the various modalities [of]… the relationship between our two countries as it relates to immigration,” Barbados’ Foreign Affairs Minister Maxine McClean told a news conference at the International Conference Centre at Liliendaal.

McClean’s declaration came at the end of a meeting of the Guyana-Barbados Joint Commission on issues in the areas of