A late evening release form the Department of Border Management and Immigration Services announces that a total of fifteen persons are being housed at the Global Village Hotel under guard pending repatriation. Of the fifteen (15) persons, eleven (11) are Jamaican nationals, six adults and five minor children that arrived in Belize over the period November 4 -11, 2024. Four (4) are Brazilian nationals that entered Belize on November 11, 2024 on the COPA flight from Panama. They were found inadmissible either because they did not have a return ticket to their country of origin. They were traveling with minors that are not properly documented; or the Address provided by eight of the Jamaican nationals as a place of abode was #111 North Front Street - which is the location of a water taxi service, not a hotel.
Three of the Jamaican nationals are indeed seeking judicial review in this matter. The department says it remains vigilant on the number of Jamaicans among other nationals that are using
Belize as a transit point to reach the United States and Canada. The suspected smuggling of anyone, particularly minors, through Belize, will under no circumstance be countenanced.
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