PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – A High Court judge here has stopped the deportation of a Nigerian national who is married to a Trinidadian. Justice Jacqueline Wilson made the order on Saturday night, hours before 37-year-old Onekachi Eke Aka Emmanuel was due to be deported along with a group of immigrants from West Africa. During…
LAWYERS representing the Jamaican who casually walked out of Piarco Airport last month, after being denied entry into this country, are seeking his release. O’Shane Bailey’s attorneys have been granted a writ of habeas corpus to have immigration officials bring him to court to justify his detention. Justice Mira Dean-Armorer today granted the writ and…
A High Court Judge has ordered the immediate release of 10 minors and four of their mothers from a migrant detention centre at the T&T Coast Guard’s Heliport in Chaguaramas. Delivering a decision at the end of an emergency hearing yesterday, Justice Joan Charles ordered their release as she noted this country’s immigration laws and…
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – The Trinidad and Tobago government says it has deported 160 Venezuelans who had illegally entered the country, In a statement on Saturday night, the Ministry of National Security said that the deportations were carried out in conjunction with the Venezuelan authorities and in compliance with the laws of Trinidad and…
FAMILIES of nationals held at the Al Hol refugee camp in Syria say they are willing to agree to a civil contract for the repatriation of their loved ones and to cover the costs of bringing them home. In a statement, the families said, “We are more than ready to comply with the necessary conditions…
Relatives of two women with eight children and two orphans of a former Islamic State (IS) Trinidadian fighter, who lost a lawsuit over failure of the Ministry of National Security to repatriate them from the Al-Hol refugee camp in north Syria, are now committed to working with national security officials to bring their relatives home….
TWO Appeal Court judges have urged parties to adopt a humane approach in treating a group of Venezuelan immigrants currently detained at the Heliport in Chaguaramas who are challenging their detention The entreaty was made at the hearing of a procedural appeal filed by the State against a judge’s interim order in April in which…
Less than a week after they arrived in Trinidad, 35 Venezuelan migrants were deported even as enquiries continue into the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a child which was aboard the same boat they were travelling in. A media release from the Ministry of National Security on Friday reported that 35 of the 37…
Venezuelans involved in Coast Guard incident sent back home The Ministry of National Security has repatriated 35 of the 39 Venezuelans who came to T&T on Saturday on a vessel involved in an incident that resulted in the death of a baby.However, attorneys representing Venezuelan the migrants are demanding to know why the Ministry deported…
Attorneys have expressed shock and concern over the move to repatriate all the Venezuelans who witnessed the Coast Guard’s tragic killing of baby Yaelvis Santoyo Sarabia. Attorney Criston J Williams had on Thursday issued a pre-action letter to National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds requesting that the children be released and that the Venezuelans, whom he…
