Latest update December 12th, 2024 1:00 AM
Dominican Republic resident trapped in Guyana
Trapped: Andre Brian Caesar
Andrew Brian Caesar, a 38-year-old Guyanese by birth, is currently living a nightmare trying to get back his passport.
His passport was lost during a home invasion in the Dominican Republic where he lives and works.
Caesar yesterday relayed his plight to this newspaper saying that he did not know what to do as he is now trapped in Guyana.
His woes started following the home invasion in April last when he visited the Guyana Consulate there.
The officials with whom he spoke said that they would make contact with the officials in Guyana namely at the Ministry of Home Affairs to have his passport renewed.
He was subsequently called and told that he will have to travel to Guyana to have the passport renewed.
Caesar said that he ‘FedExed’ all of the necessary documents to Guyana so that a friend of his who lives here could attempt to have the document obtained, but to no avail.
He decided that he would have to travel to Guyana to get the passport because he is currently being processed for citizenship in the Dominican Republic and would require the document.
Caesar secured two weeks leave from his job, obtained a travel permit from the Consulate there and arrived in Guyana nine days ago.
Upon his arrival at the airport his troubles started to escalate given that he spent almost an hour at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport enduring what he called horrible service trying to convince them that the document was indeed a travel permit.
He went to the Immigration Department and explained that his passport was lost during a robbery and he needs a renewal.
Caesar said that he was told that this would take three months but he explained that he could only stay for two weeks and was told to visit the Commissioner.
He said that he went to the Police Commissioner’s Office only to be told to head back over to immigration and speak with the supervisor at Immigration.
Caesar said that when he visited the immigration department he was told to make a plea in writing to the Commissioner of Police.
This, he said, he did only to be told that his request for a speedier processing of his passport was denied.
“What I am going to do in Guyana for three months…. If I don’t return home what will happen to my job?”
The frustrated man said that at present, he is paying to stay at a guest house because he has no family here and that he does not have enough money to sustain himself for three months.
“I am going to be on the streets soon if I don’t get my passport,” said Caesar in a plea to the Commissioner of Police for him to rethink his position. “I feel trapped in Guyana…What am I going to do here? What will happen to my job?”
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