US Charge d’Affaires Bryan Hunt doubts migration to the US has been the cause of Guyana’s population drop urging caution over speculation without the Census 2012 figures, that are being held in a top secret location until after the election.
Hunt, who must have heard the conspiracy theory that the US is emptying the country of one ethnic group, told KN the Embassy is processing “an average of 25-30 families” per week. Let’s put the family size at four persons and that’s actually around 5000 legal migrants per year and seems about right. The best measure on migration is very simple: how many more people leave via the airport in any given year than arrive at it. The raw numbers as provided by the Bureau of Statistics show that between 2002 and 2010 there were 99,962 more outgoing passengers through CJIA than incoming. As a percentage of the population (756,040) that represents a net loss of 13% over nine years. And we are not counting those leaving by land to Suriname, Brazil or Venezuela. Keep in mind Guyana has the highest birth rate in South America and still it cannot keep its population growing.
But it sure can keep the economy ticking up…at a rate of 4.5% last year, claims Ramotar in an interview with NCN, pulling a completely fictitious number out of his…hat. (more analysis on this later)
This being an election year the Mash parade was also all about numbers and who had more supporters, the Alliance or the PPP? Of course it ended up on FB with Mark Ross getting schooled by Priya Manickchand, “the PYO group walked the whole route. So I think persons on the parade would have seen what numbers there were….frankly more than your party’s representation.” We await results from Lennox Benjamin. Meanwhile SN reports “Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali.. seemed to be struggling as he tried his best to move his waist…while Basil Williams was described as “a stiff politician”.
http://gtmosquito.com/morning-...ng-to-us-every-year/
Hunt, who must have heard the conspiracy theory that the US is emptying the country of one ethnic group, told KN the Embassy is processing “an average of 25-30 families” per week. Let’s put the family size at four persons and that’s actually around 5000 legal migrants per year and seems about right. The best measure on migration is very simple: how many more people leave via the airport in any given year than arrive at it. The raw numbers as provided by the Bureau of Statistics show that between 2002 and 2010 there were 99,962 more outgoing passengers through CJIA than incoming. As a percentage of the population (756,040) that represents a net loss of 13% over nine years. And we are not counting those leaving by land to Suriname, Brazil or Venezuela. Keep in mind Guyana has the highest birth rate in South America and still it cannot keep its population growing.
But it sure can keep the economy ticking up…at a rate of 4.5% last year, claims Ramotar in an interview with NCN, pulling a completely fictitious number out of his…hat. (more analysis on this later)
This being an election year the Mash parade was also all about numbers and who had more supporters, the Alliance or the PPP? Of course it ended up on FB with Mark Ross getting schooled by Priya Manickchand, “the PYO group walked the whole route. So I think persons on the parade would have seen what numbers there were….frankly more than your party’s representation.” We await results from Lennox Benjamin. Meanwhile SN reports “Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali.. seemed to be struggling as he tried his best to move his waist…while Basil Williams was described as “a stiff politician”.
http://gtmosquito.com/morning-...ng-to-us-every-year/
