Administrator: Migrants housed at Inagua school were not sick

Wed, Aug 4th 2010, 06:02 PM

By KRYSTEL ROLLE

Guardian Staff Reporter

krystel@nasguard.com

A decision to house some 280 Haitian migrants who were caught in Bahamian waters last week in an Inagua school auditorium have reportedly upset some island residents, who expressed concern that the migrants appeared to be extremely ill.

The detainees were a part of the group of 450 illegal immigrants apprehended by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and the U.S. Coast Guard between Friday and Sunday.

Some residents are worried that the migrants could have fallen ill during their sojourn to The Bahamas.

However, both Inagua Island administrator Preston Cunningham and the officer -in- charge of the island's Department of Imm ...

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