The young man told Stabroek News yesterday that he was due to meet today with a senior official of the Protocol and Consular Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

When contacted yesterday, Chief of Protocol, MR Khan told Stabroek News to contact the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rudy Insanally but the minister was attending a Cabinet meeting and could not be reached.

Insanally is due to accompany President Bharrat Jagdeo on an official visit to Brazil today.

However, Stabroek News understands that the government has asked Guyana’s Honorary Consul in Barbados, Norman Faria, to follow up the complaints.

Last Friday, Jagdeo told Stabroek News that he had asked Insanally to take a personal interest in pursuing the case.

Jagdeo has spoken out about the harassment of Guyanese at the Grantley Adams International Airport in the past and said he was taking the report seriously.

Jagdeo is himself due to pay a state visit to Barbados shortly, when he is expected to sign agreements on fisheries and maritime delimitation, with Barbados.

At the last Caricom Heads of Government meeting in Jamaica, he and the Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur agreed that Guyanese immigration officers would be stationed at Grantley Adams to ensure that Guyanese were not singled out for harassment.