Dr. Riyad Insanally, Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States is more than a diplomat, he is a gentleman

#UnitedStates, January 1, 2018 – Washington, DC – Welcoming Magnetic Media into his office at 2490 Tracy Pl NW, Washington, DC  USA, embracing our curiosity about the new Trump Administration as natural and sensible and giving us a thorough understanding of what the Embassy in Washington, DC and others representing the Caribbean region were facing in the early days of Donald Trump as the newly elected US President.

Mr. Trump was painted as the ‘big bad wolf” who would personally orchestrate the deportation of any man, woman or child from the Caribbean who was residing illegally in the United States.   The infamous ‘Executive Orders’ though primary geared toward Muslim States, were feared by any and everyone in the U.S. without legal authority.

Very gently, very carefully, His Excellency Dr. Insanally agreed that there was a level of panic among Guyanese citizens and Americans of Guyanese descent about the scary reports swarming social media.   The Ambassador confirmed that quite likely the fear was the same for other Caribbean offices on Embassy Row in the Capital. DC.   The 8th Ambassador from Guyana, who is also his nation’s representative to the Organization of American States, in his remarks was refreshing, and set off a sobering chain of thoughts that at the end of 2017 are proving to be more true than the circulated rumors of mass deportations of Caribbean Peoples.

In an hour-long interview, one of his most poignant statements was this, “If you commit crime, and get convicted you face deportation.  That isn’t going to change.  The rhetoric and the politics are such that there is perhaps greater fear that people will be rounded up in huge numbers and sent home.  We honestly don’t know how these Orders are going to be implemented, from what I have seen in the news and in my discussions with US Officials, quite a number of them don’t know exactly how these Orders are to be implemented either.   The crux of the matter really is that our citizens should abide by the law.”

The mood in the Capital at the time was volatile, full of fanfare and friction because of this controversial new figure who would occupy the highest office in the land at the White House.   Turquiose Morning was in Washington DC, amidst the protests and the history making of the Inauguration of the 45th President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J Trump.

H.E. Insanally said, “It’s a situation which is obviously very worrying for a huge number of people, and not just Caribbean people; including Americans themselves as we have seen in some protests.   The concerns about human rights and civil liberties but when it is all said and done, America is a mature democracy, there is freedom of the press, there is institutional strength and the rule of law prevails.   One has to have some faith in those three elements as we enter and experience the early days of the new administration and we try to get a sense of what may come.”

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