Nine illegal Haitians flee to BVI after assassination, earthquake
The Immigration Department has held a little more than half-dozen Haitian nationals who entered the Territory illegally this week.
According to Chief Immigration Officer Ian Penn, a motor vessel was spotted on Wednesday, August 25 circling the Beef Island area and then ran aground.
A number of persons were reportedly seen walking along the Beef Island road, which led concerned civilians to notify the Immigration Department.
“The department’s officials in conjunction with the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force and Her Majesty’s Customs apprehended, detained and identified a total of nine individuals as Haitian nationals,” a media release from the Immigration Department said.
Penn said preparations are now being made to repatriate the group of illegals.
Meanwhile, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the BVI Health Services Authority were notified for” due process and health screening of the detainees in accordance with protocols”.
This latest incident follows two major events that recently rocked Haiti. The first is the country’s presidential assassination that led to major political tension.
The second is a massive 7.2 magnitude earthquake on August 14. The disaster destroyed more than 50,000 homes and killed more than 2,000 persons to date.
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Please!!
They were better off staying home because the VIP got here worst off than haiti
Wrong again
One family, one love BVI. Do the right thing!
yeah right, BVI doesn’t need rude boys, drug dealers or Jamaicans.
Stop it u f..l. Keep Jamaica outta yu mouth. 99% Jamaicans more educated and progressive than u think or know. Every country has bad eggs including BVI, in case you are overlooking that fact. Suh not all Jamaicans are drug dealers and not all BVI people sound stupid or make stupid comments
Read between the lines
The whole world knows they were heading to USVI.
Sure they were
They were in such a hurry to get there, they drove right past it.
What about the boat and captain? It was seen running aground and…..
This is why we keep getting Covid cases it is because our borders are still very porus.
Nah
We getting cases as peoples hit the bars and clubs. No vaccines for any of them. Then they get the virus and take it home to the family.
Boat and captain are fine. Both BVI so all good.
So much for our super expensive surveillance barges.
They gone.
Money has been spent. No more stimulus so barge captain said enough…. Drinks, women, drugs, evil cats all running round. Bvilove
Those were retired last month. Didn’t you get the memo?
The ppl had a deadly earthquake
For god sake the vip government does not get a heart
Y’all don’t come to the bvi the ppl here are heartless and selfish
Why are they putting up Customs boat, if they have not seen anyone nah chase anyone what have they done. Absolutely nothing. The photo should be the immigrant’s instead.
Concerned: Yes where is the compassion in this governmen? I guess the Haitians cannot vote!
i thought they came from St.Maarten to go USVI. They did not want to stay in BVI.