Seven Guyanese were fined a total of $140,000, after they pleaded guilty to a charge of illegal departure before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Albion Court.

Charged were Premnauth Persaud of Number 55 village Corentyne; Shelly Sookram of Adelphi Village, East Canje, Berbice; Navindra Reddy of East Coast Demerara; Bhagmattie Sarabjit of Martyr’s Ville, East Coast Demerara; GaindraDhanraj of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara; Feroze Baksh, of Lot 85 East Coast Demerara; and Ramlall Lall of Corentyne.
Particulars of the charge revealed that between Friday October 10 and Saturday October 11 at No.78 Village, Corentyne, they departed Guyana for Suriname by land frontier, from a place other than a port of entry under the Immigration Act.
The defendants were each fined $20,000, with an alternative of three weeks, imprisonment.
Meanwhile, a week ago, two self-confessed  “back-trackers “ were each sentenced to six months, imprisonment by Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs at the New Amsterdam Court, after they confessed to leaving the shores of Guyana at the Number 78 foreshore for Suriname.
In addition, Arina Francis and Deryck Persaud were fined $15,000 each. However, while Persaud was granted an alternative of twenty [20]days imprisonment if he failed to pay his fine, Francis was given an alternative of thirty [30] days imprisonment