Four Cubans deported from Dominica for illegal entry

Sunday, February 1, 2004

ROSEAU, Dominica: Four Cubans who arrived here this week posing as Spaniards were deported to Havana on Friday, a police official disclosed.

Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Cyril Carrette said an alert immigration officer observed some irregularities in the travel documents of one of the Cubans. 

According to Assistant Superintendent Carrette investigations later revealed the three men and woman were carrying forged Spanish passports and were heading to Puerto Rico, a United States territory several hundred miles north of here.

He added that assistance from their immigration colleagues in Antigua and Barbuda where the quartet were in-transit proved helpful in cracking the case.

The local authorities said they have been under pressure from the US, Canada and France to clamp down foreign nationals using Roseau as a gateway to the United States, Europe and Canada. 

Stiffer immigration penalties and monetary deposits imposed by Dominica have not slowed down immigrants from using the island as a transshipment point, Carrette said. 

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