Cuban fined for illegal visit

A Cuban national was fined $30,000 yesterday after he pleaded guilty to entering Guyana illegally.

The charge read by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry stated that on October 12, at Lethem, Alexander Louis Bermudez entered Guyana by crossing a land frontier and did not present himself to an immigration officer.

Through an interpreter at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Bermudez said that he was a tourist from Cuba and when he visited Guyana he thought that he had a three month-visa in his passport.

He added that he did not know