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Mitwah posted:
kp posted:
Mitwah posted:
Bibi Haniffa posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Patterson, maybe...or your boy with the yellow and green outfit...Ramjattan.

This green and yellow outfit??

Ramjattan[1]

Thanks for the visibility. 

Mitwah is on the far right in the photo, you really resemble Ramjattan, next time get your trousers hemmed.or have your suit tailored.

Bhaiji, stop speculating. Many GNIers know me personally. Mitwah is not that picture. Tata. 

Mitwah not in that Foto. True.

FM
kp posted:
cain posted:
kp posted:
Mitwah posted:
Bibi Haniffa posted:
VishMahabir posted:

Patterson, maybe...or your boy with the yellow and green outfit...Ramjattan.

This green and yellow outfit??

Ramjattan[1]

Thanks for the visibility. 

Mitwah is on the far right in the photo, you really resemble Ramjattan, next time get your trousers hemmed.or have your suit tailored.

U sure u lying? That aint Mits.

before you say I am lying, do you know Mits?

Yes we have met. So u telling the truth or?

cain

This is my own personal experience dealing with the Miami Consulate. A few months ago I needed some legal documents to be notarized for use in Guyana. My lawyer in Guyana told me that I could do it at the Miami Consulate. My wife's PPP friend at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in GT knows the Honorary Consul very well so she said she would hook us up. I was travelling to South Florida one weekend so I decided that I'd go to Consulate and have the documents notarized. Our contact in Guyana called the Miami Consulate and confirmed that we would come in around 11.00 and they said that someone would be there. I had no clue where I was going and thought that it was a decent office space being used for the Consulate. I got there at 11.00 and it is in the middle of the Little Haiti ghetto as described by the KN. The consulate building is a dump as well as the one across the street and many others in that neighborhood. When I got there I went to the front of the building and saw the furniture store which was closed at the time. I thought that the store was abandoned because I can't imagine anyone shopping in there. After scouting around, I found the entrance to the consulate "office" at the side of the building. I knocked on the door and got no answer. After waiting for a while, I decided to call and the woman answered. She told me that she had to run an errand and she would be there in 15 minutes. I waited for about an hour and a half and she never showed up. I called her again and she said that she would be back shortly but her husband is not there to sign the papers until 3.00. She suggested that I return at 3.00 when her husband is there and I agreed. I went over to a friend in Miami and hung around until close to 3.00 and then I went back to the Consulate. I knocked on the door again and no answer for a little while. I called again and the woman woke up and came and opened the door. She told me that unfortunately her husband had to attend an urgent meeting and he wouldn't be available until Monday. I was not staying in Miami until Monday so she said that I could leave the documents and he would sign them and mail them back to me. The fee to mail vis USPS Priority mail was $10.00. At that point I wasn't about to argue for a few dollars but I could mail the same documents via Priority Mail for less than $5.00. That's in addition to what I had to pay to notarize each page.

My whole experience felt like a major run around. Unprofessional to say the least. Guyanese deserve better. However, there is not a large volume of business to be transacted there so they have to depend of the services of a part time consul. The least they could do is to find someone who has an office space in a decent neighborhood. The person should also be on site when someone has to visit the office. The moral of the story, you get what you pay for.

Mars
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Mars posted:

This is my own personal experience dealing with the Miami Consulate. A few months ago I needed some legal documents to be notarized for use in Guyana. My lawyer in Guyana told me that I could do it at the Miami Consulate. My wife's PPP friend at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in GT knows the Honorary Consul very well so she said she would hook us up. I was travelling to South Florida one weekend so I decided that I'd go to Consulate and have the documents notarized. Our contact in Guyana called the Miami Consulate and confirmed that we would come in around 11.00 and they said that someone would be there. I had no clue where I was going and thought that it was a decent office space being used for the Consulate. I got there at 11.00 and it is in the middle of the Little Haiti ghetto as described by the KN. The consulate building is a dump as well as the one across the street and many others in that neighborhood. When I got there I went to the front of the building and saw the furniture store which was closed at the time. I thought that the store was abandoned because I can't imagine anyone shopping in there. After scouting around, I found the entrance to the consulate "office" at the side of the building. I knocked on the door and got no answer. After waiting for a while, I decided to call and the woman answered. She told me that she had to run an errand and she would be there in 15 minutes. I waited for about an hour and a half and she never showed up. I called her again and she said that she would be back shortly but her husband is not there to sign the papers until 3.00. She suggested that I return at 3.00 when her husband is there and I agreed. I went over to a friend in Miami and hung around until close to 3.00 and then I went back to the Consulate. I knocked on the door again and no answer for a little while. I called again and the woman woke up and came and opened the door. She told me that unfortunately her husband had to attend an urgent meeting and he wouldn't be available until Monday. I was not staying in Miami until Monday so she said that I could leave the documents and he would sign them and mail them back to me. The fee to mail vis USPS Priority mail was $10.00. At that point I wasn't about to argue for a few dollars but I could mail the same documents via Priority Mail for less than $5.00. That's in addition to what I had to pay to notarize each page.

My whole experience felt like a major run around. Unprofessional to say the least. Guyanese deserve better. However, there is not a large volume of business to be transacted there so they have to depend of the services of a part time consul. The least they could do is to find someone who has an office space in a decent neighborhood. The person should also be on site when someone has to visit the office. The moral of the story, you get what you pay for.

This is indeed not the proper way to operate a diplomatic office. Having people travel long distances and not being able to get the services they need is inexcusable. As Gilly suggested yesterday, the Consulate needs to be operated by someone with the ability to give it more attention. Maybe this will force the Coalition government to make the necessary changes. 

FM

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