immigration - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:53:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Hunt for Jamaican teen who escaped detention centre https://bahamascourtnews.com/hunt-for-jamaican-teen-who-escaped-detention-centre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hunt-for-jamaican-teen-who-escaped-detention-centre Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:53:00 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6580 Nassau, BAHAMAS- The hunt is on for a Jamaican teen who escaped from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre. Kirk Omar Bailey, 17, was being detained for an immigration violation. He was discovered missing around 8am on Friday during a headcount. Police didn’t say how Bailey escaped. Bailey is about 5ft, 9in tall, brown-skinned and slim. […]

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]]> 24 Haitians jailed for Long Island illegal landing https://bahamascourtnews.com/24-haitians-jailed-for-long-island-illegal-landing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=24-haitians-jailed-for-long-island-illegal-landing Wed, 30 Dec 2020 01:37:50 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/24-haitians-jailed-for-long-island-illegal-landing/ LONG Island- More than half of the Haitian migrants who landed illegally on Long Island on Christmas Day were repeat offenders. Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt today jailed 24 of the recidivists and ordered the deportation of 21 of the compatriots. Twenty three of the repeat offenders were sentenced to six months in prison. However, a […]

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]]> Man fined for spitting in officer’s face https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-fined-for-spitting-in-officers-face/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-fined-for-spitting-in-officers-face Wed, 02 Dec 2020 12:49:39 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/man-fined-for-spitting-in-officers-face/ NASSAU- A Nigerian man who spat in a marine’s face at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre has been fined. Prosecutors say Kelvin Okoro got into a fight with another detainee at the centre on November 26. And Okoro spat in Chavez McDonald’s face as he parted the fight. Okoro pleaded guilty to assault at his […]

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]]> BDF ends Haitian protest at detention centre https://bahamascourtnews.com/bdf-ends-haitian-uprising-at-detention-centre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bdf-ends-haitian-uprising-at-detention-centre Wed, 03 Jun 2020 07:40:23 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=1615 NASSAU-A group of Haitian migrants staged a protest at the immigration detention centre on June 2, demanding a return to their homeland, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) announced. Around 9am, 75 detainees went on a hunger strike and behaved in a “belligerent” manner as they protested their continued detention at the centre. Some of […]

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]]> Jamaican who overstayed spousal permit ordered deported https://bahamascourtnews.com/jamaican-who-overstayed-spousal-permit-ordered-deported/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jamaican-who-overstayed-spousal-permit-ordered-deported Sat, 14 Mar 2020 03:48:17 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=782 Nassau, BAHAMAS-A magistrate ordered the deportation of Jamaican security guard Omar Walford after he admitted overstaying his spousal permit by two years. Though married to a Bahamian, Omar Walford was in the country illegally because he didn’t renew his spousal permit when it expired in January 2018. Walford, 42, pleaded guilty to overstaying at his […]

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]]> Haitian paid Bahamian bride $1,500 for spousal permit https://bahamascourtnews.com/haitian-paid-fake-bride-1500-for-spousal-permit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haitian-paid-fake-bride-1500-for-spousal-permit Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:49:08 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=714 Nassau, BAHAMAS-A woman wept as she admitted Haitian man paid her $1,500 for a fraudulent marriage so he could legally live in The Bahamas. Janell Brown, a mother-of-four, pretended to be Jessica Newbold when she entered into the fraudulent marriage with Jugens St. Aude on August 11, 2015. Newbold learned that someone had stolen her […]

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