Tuesday, July 25, 2023
ONE hundred and forty-three Haitian migrants were repatriated yesterday.
Immigration officials invited the press to observe the exercise. During the process, the aircraft abruptly returned when one of the women passengers experienced health complications. Immigration officials later revealed that the woman had died.
Photos: Moise Amisial
Comments
bahamianson says...
So if you are haitian , you are repatriated, if you are chines, you stay in a hotel and have your paperwork brought to you. Make it make sense. If ya black you are treated differently than is you are yellow?
Posted 25 July 2023, 6:32 p.m. Suggest removal
GodSpeed says...
China basically owns much of our economy now so yeah.
Posted 25 July 2023, 8:09 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
The very very very odd thing about that situation is the workers appeared to be living in the hotel. That is beyond odd. What hotel in talks of renovation lets workers live in guest rooms? Offices? About 2 months ago after hearing Chinese immigrant after Chinese immigrant caught in smuggling operations to the US, the question I asked here was, "*were any of those persons employed at the Pointe?*" If Haitian nationals are rumoured to pay 2000 per trip what would a Chinese national pay? And how many years would they be indentured to pay off the debt? Another thing that disturbs me about the Chinese workers is how invisible they are. Recall almost a decade ago when Chinese construction workers staged a protest about how badly they were being treated? We never heard another thing about it. Who knows what happened to them. Wasnt it also reported that the employer had their identity documents? "IF" thats the case, its a classic trafficking scenario.
Again I say we run a stupid nation. How is the DPM caught in the middle of this nonsense?
Posted 25 July 2023, 9:55 p.m. Suggest removal
themessenger says...
They've been using the old hotel across the street from The Pointe, formerly owned by the Greeks, for a barracks since the beginning of The Point Project, nothing new here.
Posted 26 July 2023, 1:28 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
Yes I know, the difference is they're living in a hotel that, according to press releases, should open to guests soon, and hanging clothes in the window???? thats unsanitary. What kind of *tourism* operation is Chester Cooper running? I'm waiting for Fred Mitchell or the PM to pop up and equate this to a Bahamar or Atlantis having rooms available to staff working odd or excess shifts. You could imagine an Atlantis employee hanging clothes out to dry in the window?
someone is taking their cut allowing identity documents to be sold and smuggling operations to continue unabated while these vulnerable people are allowed to live in squalor, Haitians Chinese Mexicans Czechs etc etc etc. Pay close attention to who moves into these ministerial positions repeatedly while nothing changes
Posted 27 July 2023, 12:37 a.m. Suggest removal
SP says...
ONE hundred and forty-three jobs are now available for suffering Bahamians!
Posted 26 July 2023, 9:35 a.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
Most of these jobs are filled by Hatians , perhaps they should look for labours from other countries
Posted 26 July 2023, 12:07 p.m. Suggest removal
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