32 NEW NAMES ADDED TO IMMIGRATION STOP LIST

Executive Council (EXCO) has approved the addition of 32 new names to the Immigration Stop List, a decision which prohibits persons from re-entering the Territory.

Director of Communications Ms. Sandra Ward said the persons listed were engaged in a range of deviant activities including overstaying, indecent assault, burglary, possession of an unlicensed firearm, drug possession, and theft.

“The individuals whose names have been added to the Immigration Stop List are currently abroad and their return is not deemed to be in the Territory’s best interest,” Ms. Ward said. She added that Executive Council’s decision supports the Chief Minister’s Seven-Point Plan to fight crime and heighten surveillance of persons who are in the Territory illegally or have violated local laws in another way.

The Director of Communications also said that the Chief Minister firmly believes that publication of the stop list sends a strong message to persons wishing to contravene the Territory’s laws. Ms. Ward said that with the addition of 32 more names to the Immigration Stop List, to date in 2006 Executive Council has banned 63 persons from re-entering the Territory.

The new Immigration Stop List contains nationals of the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Trinidad, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Columbia, and Antigua.

The immigration Stop List is one of the border security tools available to the Government. Potential names for inclusion are recommended by the Immigration Department’s Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, based on information from the courts and other local, regional, and international law enforcement sources.

The new names added to the Immigration Stop List are:

1. Domingo Antonio Almonte-Ovalles (Dominican Republic)

2. Savitre Baldoo (Guyana)

3. Yovendra Bharat (Guyana)

4. Rex Michael Browne (Jamaica)

5. Dwight Nial Browne (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

6. Everard Petercho Bynoe (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

7. Henry Cayetano (Dominican Republic)

8. Michael Colley (Jamaica)

9. Christopher Anthony Colley (Jamaica)

10. Noel Newton Doharty (Jamaica)

11. Elroy Alister Farrell (St. Kitts)

12. Michael Forbes (Jamaica)

13. Samuel Gibson (Jamaica)

14. Charlotte Marina Gouon (Haiti)

15. Fred Innis (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

16. Garvin Vaughn Isaac (Trinidad)

17. Mark Christopher Lewis (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

18. Herbert George Mignott (Jamaica)

19. Martin Anthony Millwood (Jamaica)

20. Virgil Morris (St. Kitts)

21. Mark O’Connor (Jamaica)

22. Cesar Antonio Payano (Dominican Republic)

23. Indira Crisotemis Payano-Camilo (Dominican Republic)

24. Denzil Emanuel Quammie (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

25. Orvil Lavorn Riley (Montserrat)

26. John Alberto Rivera-Acosta (Columbia)

27. Christina Rogers-Padilla (Dominican Republic)

28. Mike Seranot (Haiti)

29. Howard Alexander Stephens (Jamaica)

30. Tamara Rasaint Thomas (Jamaica)

31. Raymond Russell Thomas (St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

32. Kay Ann Williams (Antigua)