Immigration authorities within the last year have denied entry to 186 CARICOM nationals because of “insufficient funds” and Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix yesterday defended this stance saying that it is part of the efforts to prevent trafficking in persons.
“We are very concerned in some cases that we need to address this issue of trafficking in persons. For example women and young children arriving at your port and they have no support, they can’t show you evidence of how they will support themselves for a month…some of the persons were treated like that (deported) because we did not
