Tag: Cuban migrants
Cuban migrants arrive on Brac ahead of storm
(CNS): A dozen Cuban migrants were transferred to Grand Cayman on Tuesday after the eleven men and one woman arrived on Cayman Brac Tuesday morning. The group were flown on a Cayman Airways Saab at around 11:15am ahead of the impending storm, Customs and Border Control officials said in a release Tuesday evening.
Boat carrying Cuban migrants capsizes off Brac coast
(CNS): A vessel carrying four Cuban men capsized off the coast of Cayman Brac at around 8:30am Thursday morning, officials have confirmed. One man swam ashore, but it’s not clear if the other three men were rescued or made it to safety under their own steam. Border control officials said the migrants did not require […]
Cubans using CAL to get to mainland
(CNS): Cabinet has approved amendments to the Customs and Border Control (Visas, Entry and Landing) Regulations, 2019 to introduce in-transit visas for Cuban nationals. Statistics show that significant numbers of Cuban nationals are travelling through the Cayman Islands and onto mainland South or Central American countries on a return ticket but are not returning. Instead, […]
Four Cubans detained by CBC in Cayman Brac
(CNS): Four men who reached Cayman Brac aboard a small wooden boat at around 5:30am on Tuesday were detained by customs officers after they opted not to continue their journey. Officials said the migrants are being processed in accordance with established CBC protocols. This is the second vessel carrying Cuban migrants to enter local waters […]
Cuban migrants continue dangerous journey
(CNS): Seven Cuban men travelling in a makeshift vessel entered Cayman waters just off the coast of the Queen’s Highway in East End early Wednesday morning, according to the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control. After the migrants were spotted at about 5:30am, CBC officers and their partner agencies approached the boat, which pulled up […]
$2.4 million earmarked for new CBC detention centre
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government hopes to steer another $2.4 million in public spending through parliament for this budget cycle to build a new detention facility for irregular migrants. Cabinet approved the proposal for the facility at a meeting on 30 April. In a press release, officials said the project would “enhance national security” and […]
CBC denies arrest of detained Cuban protester
(CNS): A Cuban asylum seeker who was carried away by a group of Customs and Border Control officers during a small protest outside the government building on Tuesday was not arrested, and his temporary admission to Cayman has been reinstated. Around two dozen Cuban migrants staged an impromptu protest outside the government building because in […]
Cuban migrants land on the Brac in small wooden boat
(CNS): Six Cuban migrants entered Cayman waters in the early hours of Sunday morning, the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control said in a release. At about 12:30am on 14 January, one woman and five men arrived in a small, rickety wooden boat, landing in the Spot Bay area of Cayman Brac, where they ended […]
Pregnant woman among 12 migrants to reach the Brac
(CNS): A group of twelve Cuban migrants landed at Watering Place, Cayman Brac, shortly after midnight on Wednesday, 6 December. One of the three women who arrived is pregnant, according to a release from Customs and Border Control. She was taken to Faith Hospital, where she was examined by medical staff, and has since been […]
CICG rescues seven migrants from raft
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coast Guard rescued a group of migrants at sea last night after its Operations Rescue Coordination Centre (ORCC) was notified of a raft adrift some 20 nautical miles northeast of Grand Cayman. According to a social media post, the coastguard set off in one of its patrol vessels, found the raft […]
Ten Cuban migrants returned to Havana
(CNS): Customs and Border Control has deported ten Cuban migrants over the last two weeks on separate trips back to Havana. The ten men were accompanied by CBC officers on two Cayman Airways flights. CBC Director Charles Clifford thanked the officers and the migration management team who processed the Cubans and organised the flights, which, […]
