Gov’t tightening screening at ports – Felix

The Government of Guy-ana is making efforts to tighten screening at Guyana’s ports so as to stymie what appears to be efforts to use Guyana as a “conduit” to illegally access other countries.

This is according to Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix, who yesterday told reporters that Immigration Officers have recently denied entry to nationals of Haiti and the Dominican Republic be-cause they were not in possession of visas and had insufficient funds.

Felix revealed that on Wednesday seven Haitians arrived and were refused entry. “They were refused entry