Venezuelan ordered to pay fine for overstaying

Oct 16, 2012 News

A 49-year-old Venezuelan male has been ordered to pay a $30,000 fine or alternatively serve a two-week prison sentence after he admitted to breaching the conditions of his stay in Guyana.
José Line Dias De Ollivierre appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday for failing to comply with conditions subject to which his permit to stay in Guyana was granted, given that he overstayed the three-week period which was officially granted to him by immigration officials.
Ollivierre entered Guyana on March 30 and was scheduled to leave on April 21; he nevertheless left for a mining camp in the interior and attempted to gain access to Georgetown via Ogle airport when immigration authorities observed that his travel document had expired.
At the hearing, the foreigner explained that he came to Guyana to visit friends but decided to stay.