Gov’t releases Haitians detained for weeks ahead of Court ruling

Hours after the Attorney General Chambers disseminated three affidavits in support of the State’s defense that some 26 Haitians, who were detained pending deportation, were treated justly, the government has released those Haitians.

This comes almost a week after Chief Justice (ag), Roxane George granted a conservatory order halting the deportation of the 26 Haitians, who remained in custody at a government facility at Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice (WCB) up until Wednesday.

The ten men, nine women and seven children, who were weeks ago intercepted by police at a city hotel and in a mini-bus on the Linden – Mabura Road, were reportedly rounded up on Wednesday afternoon and brought to the city and dropped off at the city hotel.

The hotel owner said that he was making preparations to accommodate them but only 14 of the persons were initially at his hotel.

He told reporters at the scene that he received no correspondence from Guyanese authorities that the Haitians were being released and returned to his South Road, Georgetown hotel.

The Haitians themselves could be heard complaining that the manner in which they were treated was humiliating.