By JADE RUSSELL
Tribune Staff Reporter
jrussell@tribunemedia.net
NINETY-TWO people were detained in New Providence and Abaco as authorities looked to demolish shanty towns, Immigration Minister Alfred Sears said yesterday.
“These were persons who had overstayed their time had no papers, so to speak, no official sanction, to be within the country,” he said during his contribution to the mid-year budget debate in the House of Assembly yesterday.
“So, the demolition has really indicated pockets of people within these communities who ought not to be in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Those persons have been brought to the courts, and some of them have been repatriated if they were not able to get themselves regularised.”
Works Minister Clay Sweeting, head of government’s Unregulated Communities Task Force, has repeatedly said only Bahamians living in shanty towns would be provided accommodations as authorities evict residents. On Wednesday, he said this applies to permanent residents as well.
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