Citing fears of an influx of foreigners, political party, ANUG has called on government to cease all grants of citizenship to such aliens unless stringent and clear criteria for citizenship are made available for public examination and discussion.
In a letter published in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) Chairman Timothy Jonas pointed to media reports that nearly 1,000 individuals have been granted citizenship in Guyana since 2015. Citing a newspaper report, Jonas also said that “approximately 100 applications for citizenship” are made to the ministry daily.
At a news conference last week, according to a report in the Guyana Chronicle, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix said that for the period from 2015 to July this year, 923 immigrants were granted citizenship. He also said, according to a report in the Guyana Times, over 100 applications per day are made to process visas for persons coming to work in oil and gas offshore.
