She was involuntarily returned to Guyana more than 14 years ago, but the 50-year-old mother of four still cannot find a steady job and finds it “frustrating just to survive.”
“I came back here and I try, but is like people just don’t want to give you a second chance. As soon as they hear the accent, they would say they don’t want no deportee working with them,” the woman, who declined to give her name or the reason she was sent back here from the US, told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
She recalled that when she came back to Guyana after living overseas for 21 years, she had no close relatives and she struggled to get by.
Today she has a buying and selling clothing business but said she often