By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
SIX Chinese nationals who overstayed their time in Grand Bahama were apprehended by Bahamian authorities at a resort in the Lucaya area on Independence Day.
Bahamas immigration officials believe the group was taking steps to be smuggled into the United States.
Immigration officer Napthali Cooper said at 10am on Monday, officers acting on information received, went to a resort in Lucaya to investigate.
On arrival, they checked two rooms and found the six Chinese nationals – two men and four women.
Mr Cooper said that on checking their passports, it was discovered that they had arrived in the Bahamas during the months of April, May, and June and had since overstayed their allotted time as visitors.
The immigrants were taken into custody and transfered to the Department of Immigration’s headquarters in the C A Smith Government Complex for processing.
They were flown to New Providence on Tuesday where they will be detained at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre to await repatriation.
Comments
sealice 6 years, 9 months ago
how many illegal chingros since Bahmar started? They all going to the US or any chasing the Bahamian dream?
TalRussell 6 years, 9 months ago
Comrades! Talk is that there is no record of some 250 Chinese nationals who worked at Baha Mar - having exited the Bahamaland?
DDK 6 years, 9 months ago
Who pays to repatriate?
sheeprunner12 6 years, 9 months ago
There are at least another 3,000 in Nassau............... as we speak
sealice 6 years, 9 months ago
buddy we got more chingros in Nassau now then hayshuns.....
jus2cents 6 years, 9 months ago
This is just the tip of the iceberg, we all know there has been people smuggling in the Bahamas for YEARS and a lot are Asians smuggled by Asians. Most of them want to be in the USA not the Bahamas though. Go in the back door of any Chinese Taylor shop, Supermarket or Restaurant a lot are just fronts for all kinds of shenanigans (Gambling and Drugs as well as human trafficking), and I can bet Immigration department has knowledge of it and yes maybe they have been bribed as well. The Immigration dept. have done nothing constructive in decades regarding updating the application system and digitizing the application process.
Work, residency permits, citizenship should only take a month Max to process but they can take up to Five or more years, its ridiculous! Ask anyone who has got Citizenship lately the only way to process an application quickly is to pay 'someone' off.
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