Two Jamaican females escaped from the Immigration Department’s
detention facility at Coolidge on Sunday, January 21, sources tell
REAL News.
Reports claim the two detainees, a student and a hairdresser, made
good their escape through a bathroom window – the glass of which
they allegedly broke – while the four officers on duty allegedly were entertaining
themselves and engrossed in a television programme.
Other reports say the officers searched the environs for the two
escapees, but they were not found.
The two women – who reportedly had not been located up to
Sunday night – reportedly had been sponsored by a Trinidad and
Tobago national who holds an Antigua and Barbuda passport.
This is the third occasion in recent times in which detainees have
broken out of the Immigration Centre. In the most egregious case,
five Haitians escaped and were never found.
The Department failed to report that matter to the public and
admitted it only after the story was broken by REAL News.
In another hushed-up incident that the Department later
acknowledged, several Indians who were due to be deported left the
hotel at which they were staying and also disappeared.
In both instances, sources said these persons were all smuggled out
of the country by boat.
Our Newsroom will report on this latest instance as more information
comes to hand.
