“This new policy of the People’s Progressive Party Civic Government of Guyana is an international admission of its incompetence and inability to control corruption.”This is according to the Guyana People’s Partnership headed by Peter Ramsaroop. Ramsaroop was at the time speaking about the fact that Guyanese living abroad has to travel to Guyana to obtain their machine readable passports and they can’t be processed at the consulates and embassies overseas.He said that the taxes of Guyanese are being used to pay for Guyanese diplomatic representation in capitals and major cities worldwide and a part of the services the diplomatic representatives are expected to provide is the initial processing of passport applications of Guyanese living abroad.He said that the passport services at Guyana’s consular offices can be provided on a cost recovery basis so they would not constitute any additional burden on Guyanese taxpayers.“Apart from demonstrating incompetence,Cheap Jerseys From China, we wonder if this new passport policy is a means of lowering the number of Guyanese who register to vote… GPP calls for the government to immediately get rid of this stupid policy.”He said that his movement hopes that the Government of Norway is paying attention in relation to the money that country plans to pay over to the, “corrupt and incompetent PPP/C Government.”Only recently, Guyanese residing in St Kitts and Nevis sought to petition the Guyanese authorities to intervene, given that it would be too costly to make the trip home to collect a passport.In a letter to the Minister of Home Affairs and copied to President Bharrat Jagdeo, they St Kitts-based Guyanese say that they need these people to heed their plea.“Sir, we are therefore pleading with you to take our financial position and the following situations and recommendations into account.”The cost of a return airfare is over EC$2,China Jerseys Authentic,000.? If a family of six has to fly to Guyana to acquire passports it will cost them EC$12,000, and that is only the airfare.They have to find money to pay for the passports,NFL Jerseys Outlet, transportation to and from the Immigration Department in Kingston,Cheap Jerseys, especially if they would be staying at relatives on the Corentyne or on the Essequibo.They would also have to find money to support their stay while in Guyana.Last year October,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon had said that all machine readable passport applicants living aboard would have their necessary particulars obtained from the nearest overseas missions.He had said that all the documents would be processed overseas and the information would be transported under secure cover to Guyana.Dr Luncheon at that time had said that the Central Passport Office in Georgetown,Cheap NFL Authentic Jerseys, Guyana, would continue to be the sole issuing site for machine-readable passports.Guyanese living aboard can either return home or they have the option of going through the nearest mission overseas.He at that time had said that the machine-readable passports would be returned to the overseas mission from where the applicant can uplift it.

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