- Six citizens of Cuba and Afghanistan touched down in Georgetown last Friday, the first arrivals under a newly disclosed one-year migration pact between Guyana and Washington; lawmakers say the government did not confirm the arrangement publicly until a day after the group had already landed, according to Kaieteur News.
- All six were cleared of any criminal record and were removed from the United States over paperwork and visa problems rather than crimes, a sharp contrast with the convicted deportees the US has flown to Eswatini and South Sudan.
- The text opposition legislators have pushed to obtain caps arrivals at twelve people a month, or 144 a year, with the United Nations migration agency covering logistics while Guyana says it will not pay for housing.
- Guyana now joins Belize and St. Kitts and Nevis, plus St. Lucia, which welcomed its own first six arrivals the same week, inside a global system that has moved roughly 22,000 people across more than two dozen participating nations.
A charter flight touched down at Cheddi Jagan International Airport outside Georgetown on Friday carrying six passengers nobody's home government wanted back. Four, according to one local outlet's count, held Cuban citizenship; two carried Afghan passports. Robert Persaud, who holds the Foreign Secretary post in Guyana's government, confirmed the group's arrival a day later, telling reporters his ministry had spent months hammering out terms before the first flight ever touched ground.
