Tag: Cuban migrants
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, […]
Migrants evacuated during fire at Fairbanks centre
(CNS): Police are investigating a fire at the Customs and Border Control Detention Centre at Fairbanks on Monday. CBC said it started at about 1:00pm and the eight migrants housed there were evacuated from the building while the Cayman Islands Fire Service extinguished the blaze.
Two missing Cubans now feared lost at sea
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Coat Guard, fire crews, police and border control ceased their joint operation Monday night after another day of searching for two missing Cuban men who were part of a group of ten migrants shipwrecked off the coast of Cayman Brac at the weekend. After a full day of search and recovery, […]
Two Cubans missing, eight rescued at sea
(CNS): A major search and rescue operation involving the police, coastguard, fire service, border control and private boat owners in the sea around Cayman Brac was conducted Saturday and Sunday, in which eight Cuban men were rescued. However, two more are missing. According to Customs and Border Control (CBC), the operation began after one man […]
Ten Cuban migrants repatriated to Havana
(CNS): Ten Cuban men who ended up in the Cayman Islands as irregular migrants on small vessels were repatriated to Havana on a Cayman Airways charter Tuesday. The migrants departed Grand Cayman on a SAAB aircraft at around 10:10am and arrived in Cuba at approximately 12:30pm as part of the CBC expedited processing of asylum […]
More Cubans arrive in small wooden boat
(CNS): Four Cuban men landed at Spot Bay, Cayman Brac, early Friday morning, according to the Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control. The migrants arrived at around 6:00am in a small wooden rowing boat and were processed by officials. A change in the rules for processing asylum applications means that migrants can be repatriated much more […]
Arson suspected after fire at migrant centre
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Fire Service successfully tackled a small fire at the Fairbanks Customs and Border Control Service Detention Center in George Town on Friday lunchtime. The Cuban migrants who are being held at the centre were all evacuated from the building while the fire crews extinguished the blaze. No one was injured.
Four Cubans land on the Brac in rickety canoe
(CNS): Four migrants are currently in Customs and Border Control custody after landing on Cayman Brac at around 6:50 Sunday morning, having travelled from Cuba in a rickety wooden canoe. The men arrived in Spot Bay and ended their journey before being processed in accordance with CBC protocols. This is the fourth migrant boat to […]
Seven more Cubans come ashore on the Brac
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Customs and Border Control (CBC) are dealing with their third group of Cuban migrants so far this month after a boat carrying one woman and six men arrived on the South Side of Cayman Brac at around 8am on Thursday. No other details were released about the migrants who will be […]
