20 ADDED TO IMMIGRATION STOP LIST

Executive Council has approved the addition of 20 persons to the Territory’s immigration stop list, which prohibits them from re-entering the Territory.

The 20 include persons who have been convicted in the British Virgin Islands of offences including theft, illegal entry, prostitution, wounding, indecent assault and overstaying landing permit. Seven have been convicted on drug related charges in the Territory.

Three of them are from St. Kitts and Nevis, while another three are Jamaicans. There are two each from the Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica and Guyana. The list also includes nationals of Ghana, Haiti, Canada and the United States of America.

The names were added in accordance with the Immigration and Passport Act, which gives the Governor in Council authority to maintain a stop list of persons whose presence in the BVI is deemed undesirable. Executive Council is empowered to make such decisions based on a person’s past behaviour in the Territory, or on advice received from a reliable source.

The immigration stop list is one of the border security tools at the Territory’s disposal. Names are put forward for inclusion on the stop list by the Department of Immigration’s Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, based on information provided by the courts and local and overseas law enforcement agencies.

List of persons added to the stop list:

Calvin Brathwaite (Ghana)

Yluminada Caldenes (Dominican Republic)

Casmore Castello (St. Vincent)

Roxanne Chase (Trinidad)

Eugene Douglas (Dominica)

Franz Kelso Farrell (St. Kitts)

Paulina German Flores (Dominican Republic)

Richarldo Gossie (Dominica)

Hensbert Woodrow Grant (Jamaica)

Granville Hendrickson (St. Kitts)

Marie JN Louis Kastl (Haiti)

Franklyn Kelly (St. Kitts)

Marcia Manning (Jamaica)

Ruth Miller-Wellington (Jamaica)

Bolson Deorn Ottley (St. Vincent)

Matthew Allan Probasco (USA)

Carol Ann Stockdale (Canada)

Michelle Ann Wharton (Guyana)

Maxwell Williams (Guyana)

Cheryl Yearwood (Trinidad)