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VI’s visa requirement for Guyanese should be 'revisited'- Hon Fraser

Guyanese citizens must obtain a visa before travelling to the [British] Virgin Islands; however, Guyanese who are holders of a US Visa are granted entry for a period of 6 months. Photo: Internet Source/File
 Member of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) has said the visa requirement imposed on Guyana nationals by the [British] Virgin Islands should be revisited. Photo: VINO/File
Member of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) has said the visa requirement imposed on Guyana nationals by the [British] Virgin Islands should be revisited. Photo: VINO/File
WICKHAM’S CAY 1, Tortola, VI- Member of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) has said the visa requirement imposed on Guyana nationals by the [British] Virgin Islands should be revisited.

Guyanese citizens must obtain a visa before travelling to the [British] Virgin Islands; however, Guyanese who are holders of a US Visa are granted entry for a period of 6 months.

“Several years ago some form of review was done. The criteria that was used, I don’t know, but it must exist, it is still there, but that review that was done several years ago and the criteria that was used that caused the Virgin Islands Government to impose a visa regime on people of Guyana coming to the Virgin Islands should be revisited and I leave it with you to take that up with the authorities of the Virgin Islands.”

Hon Fraser was at the time addressing a gathering of predominantly Guyanese at Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park on May 26, 2023, at a candlelight vigil for 19 children who died in a fire in Guyana recently. The death toll has since moved up to 20.

UK lifted visa restriction on Guyana in November 2022

The United Kingdom (UK) on November 9, 2022, lifted the visa requirement for Guyanese seeking to visit the UK for no more than 6 months.

British High Commissioner to Guyana Jane Miller had said the abolition of the visa requirement is a “real sign” of the growing UK/ Guyana relationship.

As of 9 November 2022, Guyanese citizens have visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 88 countries and territories, ranking the Guyanese passport 62nd in terms of travel freedom, according to the Henley Passport Index.

44 Responses to “VI’s visa requirement for Guyanese should be 'revisited'- Hon Fraser”

  • Fraser is the man (04/06/2023, 11:22) Like (7) Dislike (38) Reply
    Guyanese are well behaved unlike some of the other Caribbean nationals.
  • hmm (04/06/2023, 11:28) Like (21) Dislike (1) Reply
    FRASER BOY THEY GONNA SOON START SAYING THAT YOU HAVE A GUYANESE LOVER LIKE WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE PREMIER AND ONE OF HIS MINISTERS
    • Curried Duck (04/06/2023, 13:12) Like (10) Dislike (5) Reply
      The above mentioned developed quite a taste for curry duck and roti.
    • @LOL (04/06/2023, 22:51) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
      Like sorryyyyy, they are already saying it. One thing about Tortola, no matter how much you try to hide and cover things up, someone always knows.
  • FRAZIER IS YOUR MAN (04/06/2023, 12:58) Like (25) Dislike (9) Reply
    IF YOU CHECK OUT ALL THE THIEFING THAT USED TO GO ON IN RITE WAY IN PASEA ALONE , BEFORE THEY GOT CAUGHT , AND CHECK OUT WHICH COUNTRY THEY COME FROM ???? ( YOU WOULDN'T SAY THAT ) AND THEY ALWAYS KNOW , ALWAYS CARRYING NEWS ON THEIR CO -WORKERS ,/ WELL DON'T TALK ABOUT LIEING ???? AND WHICH TOP 3 COUNTRIES HAS THE MOST KILLINGS AND
    SUICIDE IN THE CARIBBEAN .
    • So true (04/06/2023, 19:22) Like (7) Dislike (2) Reply
      Mannn that Rite way in Pasea was getting some hard hits from those lying stealing sticky fingers people.
    • @Frazier... (05/06/2023, 14:49) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      I did hear about one of the supermarkets thefts. I didn't know there were sooo many more.
  • please (04/06/2023, 13:07) Like (27) Dislike (2) Reply
    Re-visit what now? We have enough issues dealing with.
  • Guyanese ???????? (04/06/2023, 13:21) Like (13) Dislike (2) Reply
    Are part of America , not north tho ???????????? apply for ya visa
  • Guinea (04/06/2023, 13:25) Like (24) Dislike (6) Reply
    Have you all check Guyana news later. Their crimes are heinous than place you think bad but there are really good Guyanese too. Chopping up, murder and domestic violence in Guyana them same reason visa required. Every country watching Guyana oil. Guess he want bvi make s sacrifice too.
    • @ Guinea (05/06/2023, 09:55) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
      Despite all you just said about the current situation in Guyana, tell me who will want to come here to Abortion roads, Sewerage filled streets in the heart of the town, can't take a shower over a week, electricity off, can't battle a simple seaweed problem, incompetent politicians, the Mistake Administration, concert instead of the peoples need, can't address the scooter riders who are on the Road any hour zooming by creating noise at 1000 decibels waking up babies, children, our elders, and even hard working people who just need a good nights rest??? and is like you forget the shootings here and the incest and the people who claim they are descendants of slaves but now enslave their own people and those they hold permits for. I can go on and on and on but you know the rest. BVI has already sacrificed itself. Y'all is your own worse enemy. We all are our own worse enemy eh. So please bruh, mek sure yuh glass house is hurricane strong before you throw stones at Guyana or any other country for that matter.
  • please (04/06/2023, 14:09) Like (14) Dislike (8) Reply
    Guyanese is well behaved? They are worse than the Jamaicans. Guyanese are famous for drinking poison and setting fires. Look at the little fire fly that set the fire and kill 19 children in their dorm. You all jump on the people from St.Vincent saying they love to chop up, who is the masters of chopping and stabbing each other up, THE GUYANESE.
  • look jokes (04/06/2023, 14:18) Like (22) Dislike (6) Reply
    The Guyanese is getting a roasting today. If you are going to revisit the visa requirement for the Guyanese then you should revisit the visa requirements for all. What’s good with you and these Guyanese now. Do not open Pandora’s box Fraser.
    • @look jokes (04/06/2023, 22:45) Like (3) Dislike (1) Reply
      I hope Frazer knows when one stick their hand in Pandora’s box you either touch good or bad and most of the time that hand touches bad.
  • @Fraser the man (04/06/2023, 16:13) Like (13) Dislike (2) Reply
    GUYA WHO IS WELL BEHAVED? Just visit stabroek AND KAIETEUR NEWS AND YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR WAY OF THINKING. DOMESTIC ABUSE AND KILLING OF WOMEN RUNS RAMPID IN THAT COUNTRY. SOME OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY PEOPLE THAT IS LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DONOT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM BECAUSE WHEN THEY GO HOME FOR A VISIT, THERE OWN WOULD SET THEM UP TO BE ROBBED WHEN THEY ARRIVE IN GUYANA. THAT IS WHY WHEN YOU ARE GOING HOME FOR A VISIT, YOU TELL NO ONE. YOU GET IN AND YOU GET OUT.
  • bay yute (04/06/2023, 17:00) Like (8) Dislike (5) Reply
    FRAZER LIKE HE HAVE A GUYANAISE WOMAN , HE CATCHING FEELINGS ALL OF AH ASUDDEN. LIKE HE EAT TO MUCH CURRY RICE . IS ST VINCENTIANS WE NEED KEEP OUR EYES ON THEM NEED VISA RESTRICTIONS .
  • Ha Ha (04/06/2023, 17:54) Like (1) Dislike (4) Reply
    Look who talking about ppl and so much killings going on harr as per capital wunna know that we worse than the USA for killings
    • @HA HA (06/06/2023, 09:07) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      The question is then... who are committing all these killings in the VI with more than half the population being of foreign lineage???
  • @bay yute (04/06/2023, 17:55) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    LMAO MEHSON THEM BOY SAY FRASER GOT HOOK BY THE SPICY CURRY SHARK AND PEPPERPOT.
  • Hmmmm (04/06/2023, 18:55) Like (16) Dislike (8) Reply
    It's amazing how Caribbean people bash each other. All countries have good and bad people. How many Caribbean countries have their elected official waiting for trial for drugs? You without sin cast the first stone. I didn't know that BVI only has saints. You all need to stop the foolishness. Some of the countries you bad talk came to you all rescue after the hurricane but how quickly you forget. Guyanese are not the worst. Most of us come here and work hard.,teachers, nurses, doctors and the list goes on. But you all would not talk that only quick to point out the bad.
    • @hmmmm (04/06/2023, 21:35) Like (15) Dislike (6) Reply
      The BVI is a bread basket for the Caribbean. I overheard an Indian Guyanese telling another at work,that Tortola is no good, but still she resides here, also her mom , dad, child, sis, bro, uncle, an aunt ,great aunt ,maternal Grandmother as well. So ungrateful. smh
      • @ @Hmmmm (05/06/2023, 10:00) Like (9) Dislike (3) Reply
        you made me laugh bwoi. Wah bread basket? who lie to you? who can plant on rocks? go siddung with that bread basket nonsense. but let me educate you, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica are some of your neighbors who can be considered the breadbasket of the caribbean...jah
        • @@ @Hmmm (05/06/2023, 15:31) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
          Yet you and that Indian Guyanese are not dipping into those country's breadbaskets but instead sitting on our rocks trying to make bread with a mouth filled with crap. Well eat your own crap if it helps you to survive...cause you earned it!
    • @ Hmmmm (05/06/2023, 15:20) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      Please! If they didn't request for their independence it’s most likely that many of the leaders would be in jail now. Plus, don't make this a Caribbean people issue... check the UK, America, etc. The Feds took down plenty in America and now they're out for Trump.
  • HMMM (04/06/2023, 20:14) Like (6) Dislike (11) Reply
    Imagine Guyana was owned by British. They took all of Guyana's wealth then give them independence and then impose visa restrictions on them. Britain owes Guyana a lot.
  • Riteway (04/06/2023, 20:19) Like (9) Dislike (8) Reply
    To all who talking about petty thief at riteway read "Former RiteWay cashiers George Wells and Sharon Forde have been convicted for stealing close to $60,000 from the Roadtown Wholesale Cash and Carry in Pasea Estate back in 2017..Wells is a British Virgin Islands native while Forde is a St Lucian."
    • LOLL (05/06/2023, 15:16) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      thats a hard reach...everybody know wells is a strong latino......man accent and all hispanic.....
  • check again (04/06/2023, 22:06) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    Wells is a Virgin Islander???
    • @check again (05/06/2023, 08:25) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      hmm My research is BVI news and Vino so if they are wrong then so am I.
  • That is why I said what I said (04/06/2023, 23:04) Like (7) Dislike (4) Reply
    It dont have not one Guyanese in the Jail here
  • You all know (05/06/2023, 08:36) Like (3) Dislike (4) Reply
    Guyanese especially the Indian looking ones love to set themselves on fire or drink poison when their man or husband leaves them.
    • .... (05/06/2023, 13:18) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
      what this got to do with the visa tho lol , yall love to side track shxx. if the people wan drink poison and set themselves on fire thats their decision, the issue here is about the visa.
    • @ you all know (05/06/2023, 13:40) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
      Hmm I hope all that hate in your system don't poison you boo
      • @ @you all know (05/06/2023, 15:55) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
        That doesn't sound like a hate statement...more like statistics without figures.
  • So (05/06/2023, 09:13) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    Let Fraser go home. Let sleeping dogs lie. we have enough in our little Territory, some are witch doctors we don't need anymore
  • Crab (05/06/2023, 09:43) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    It is no wonder the others have no regards and treat us the way we are treated, with our mouth closed. Because they hear us degrading one another and like crabs in a barrel always fighting each other. What is really wrong with the children of Ham?.
  • oil country (05/06/2023, 13:34) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
    ALL THE BAD TALKING ABOUT GUYANESE. WAIT UNTIL THE OIL KICK IT. MATTER OF FACT IT ALREADY STARTED. ASK ENGLAND!!! I HOPE GUYANESE REMEMBER THESE NASTY WORDS WHEN THE TIME COME.
  • Y no say (05/06/2023, 16:19) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Tortola need a visa to come here to many shooting
  • RedStorm (05/06/2023, 17:09) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    As part of the UK territory,the visa should be in the review stage. This is simple facts, when Guyana had no foreign investors ,many of its people travelled abroad, most to Canada , USA, St Vincent, St Lucia and St Kitts. It was only in the late 80’s many of their people traveled to the BVI and those were construction workers, teachers,nurses,then followed some of their women , most who used the country as an exit to the US.

    However, most of those people are not willing to come to BVI , when compared to that country progress, most of their young people are moving out of their country for education and back to their homeland. I had the privilege to speak to a few young lawyers who are attending law school in the UK, and each summer they return to their homeland. They are dubbed as ambassadors of their country.This in comparison to BVI has a contrast, most stay where they can be paid the big bucks.

    I believe Hon. Fraser fall short of his speech, and it should have been enlightened to indicate an advocate for the people to get some foreign exchange programs and projects with that country such as the agriculture school, medical program etc. as Barbados,has agreed with agriculture products, prefab housing and land cultivation , Jamaica has agreed for imports of Jamaica products such as Ackee,sardine etc. and st Vincent also have an agreement. Nothing is wrong with having foreign business relationships with another that can help in some areas of the BVI , now we do not plant enough food and it would have been best to have cargo plane with weekly food from Guyana, than to have those pesticide and highly fertilized and processed food import here.
  • Native Tongue (07/06/2023, 06:11) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    When will these politicians look out for the people who voted for them? Andrew got elected, first thing give away the country then sell it. Now in dam jail. Make it make sense.
  • Blow under the belt (07/06/2023, 18:29) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wow! Amazing! Evil and wicked thoughts. Let peace prevail.


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