Tag: Cuban migrants
More Cubans arrive on Brac as centre remains full
(CNS): Immigration staff have begun “migrant reception and detention protocols” after seven more Cuban men landed on Cayman Brac around 8:30am this morning, officials said, though no details were released about the vessel in which the latest group of migrants arrived. The latest group brings the number of Cubans currently held by the immigration department to 109.
Over 100 Cubans still detained
(CNS): Immigration officials deported 32 Cuban migrants on Tuesday but over 100 still remain at the Immigration Detention Centre or in civic centres in East End, Bodden Town or prison facilities, and two are in jail after being on the run for three months. Costs are running high as government faces another surge in the arrivals of […]
Runaway Cubans jailed for three months
(CNS): Two Cuban migrants who landed in Grand Cayman illegally in the Beach Bay area were sentenced to three months in jail on Friday after being on the run for 16 days. Liodanis Sanchez Barrio (26) and Ennier Guillermo Puig (27) both pleaded guilty after they were rounded up by the authorities when they were […]
Two Cuban escapees recaptured
(CNS): Two Cuban men who disappeared after a group of migrants landed at Beach Bay last month have been recaptured, officials have confirmed. The men are now back in the custody of the immigration department after they were apprehended Tuesday (16 February) around 3:00pm in the vicinity of Lantern Point on the outskirts of George Town.
Disney cruise ship brings in rescued Cubans
(CNS): A cruise ship brought in a dozen more Cuban migrants this weekend after the group was rescued off the coast of Grand Cayman, according to international reports. The Disney Wonder, which called in at George Town on Sunday, picked up the twelve men and women, who were on a makeshift vessel, at around 8pm on […]
Cubans still on the run, as migrant numbers surge
(CNS): Immigration authorities are battling to cope with the surge in Cubans arriving in Cayman, with another vessel currently stranded in local waters. There are already more than 120 migrants held in various locations across Grand Cayman, as the main Fairbanks detention centre is full, and two are still on the run. On Tuesday officers […]
Cubans rescued from sinking boat
(CNS): A call to the Port Authority of the Cayman Islands from a sailing vessel heading to Panama helped the local marine police save the lives of fifteen Cuban migrants who were aboard a sinking boat south of Cayman, police said. The group of four women and eleven men were said to be aboard an old […]
Four Cubans on the run in Grand Cayman
(CNS): Forty Cuban migrants reached Cayman waters this weekend in two vessels but the authorities discovered today that four of them are missing and are now on the run in Grand Cayman, possibly in the Beach Bay area of Bodden Town. A fifth man who left with them returned at 3:30pm Sunday, police said. The immigration department is asking the public […]
Migration key issue for Cayman’s future
(CNS): Two local government officials attended the United Nations Regional Consultative Process on Migration in Belize last week in the first of what is expected to be a collaborative process in the Caribbean to deal with the issue. Michael Ebanks, assistant chief officer in the home affairs ministry, and Christopher Eakin, policy director at immigration, […]
Three Cubans remain as CIG deports 49 migrants
(CNS): There are now just three Cubans detained by the Cayman Islands authorities at the detention centre in Fairbanks, officials said Wednesday, after 49 migrants were deported back to Havana Tuesday. It is now over one month since the last group of Cubans were forced to land in Cayman during the first leg of a treacherous […]
Cubans cost $1.6M in 2014
(CNS): The government has confirmed that during 2014 it spent over $1.6 million on the detention, housing and repatriation of Cuban migrants who arrived in the Cayman Island illegally. Following calls from the Cayman Islands Red Cross, as it marked World Refugee Day this weekend, not to think about refugees in terms of dollars and cents, […]
