A Venezuelan man and his Peruvian wife were remanded to prison yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, after they answered to a joint charge of entering Guyana illegally. Jose Rodrigues, 25, of Isla Margarita, Venezuela and his common-law wife Jessica Ruby Escarptsoo, 35, of Lima, Peru, pleaded not guilty to the charge of entering Guyana by sea and disembarking without the consent of an immigration officer.
The charge was read to them by acting Chief Magistrate