–for entering country illegally

TWO Venezuelan Nationals were on Monday fined and deported after being charged before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan for entering Guyana illegally.

Akemii Florez, a 26-year-old law student, and Mariana Duran, a 28-year-old housewife were separately charged and admitted to the offences with the aid of an interpreter.
Florez confessed that on November 15, at Charity, on the Essequibo Coast, she entered Guyana by sea and disembarked without the consent of an immigration officer.

Duran admitted that on November 2, at Eteringbang, in the Cuyuni River, she entered Guyana by sea and disembarked without the consent of an immigration officer.

According to Police Prosecutor, Arwin Moore, on November 2, Duran came into Guyana with a boat via Eteringbang, while Florez came with a boat to Charity.
Both women, he said, disembarked and came ashore illegally, without presenting themselves to an immigration officer.

On November 15, both women were arrested in a bus while heading to Bartica after police found that they had no entry stamps in their passports.
The magistrate fined them $15,000 each, or three weeks imprisonment in default. After paying their fines, or serving their sentences, they will be deported to their homeland.