Guyanese, Jamaican Immigrants Arrested:

By Darrin Culmer -
Nassau, Bahamas:

Immigration officials continued their efforts Sunday to keep up with the steady stream of immigrants travelling to The Bahamas illegally when they took into custody four Guyanese men, four Guyanese women and one Jamaican man, all of whom were believed to have entered the country without proper documentation.

Police Inspector Walter Evans said officers attached to Operation Quiet Storm – a joint police and immigration initiative – discovered the group around 4am Sunday onboard a vessel named ‘Liberty’ which was docked at Bayshore Marina.

In another phase of its ongoing campaign the immigration department repatriated 295 Haitian migrants earlier this month at a cost of $60,389.

During the month of July the Department repatriated 733 Haitian nationals, 26 Jamaicans, and 14 migrants of various nationalities.

Those figures brought the total number of repatriations for the year to 4,089.

Of that total 3,553 migrants were from Haiti, 337 from Jamaica and 75 from Cuba, the Department of Immigration reported.

28 August 2006

illegal immigration