By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Thursday 6th January 2022) — Following a recent illegal entry incident into the Federation involving Haitian nationals, police report that two St. Kitts-Nevis nationals have been taken into police custody and placed in quarantine, while two boat workers remain at large.
Information reaching this media house on Sunday 2nd January 2022 indicated that there was a heavy police presence in Bath Village, Nevis that morning around 10AM. An official police statement on Wednesday 5th January stated that the police are investigating an incident in which several persons entered the Federation via Nevis illegally on January 02, 2022, on a vessel that ran aground at Bath Village, and that the captain and mate of the vessel are still at large.
“Later that same day, seventeen (17) nationals of Haiti comprising eleven (11) males, four (4) females and two (2) juveniles were taken into Police custody and are in quarantine. The vessel, which does not bear a name, was also seized,” the police statement read. “Following an operation conducted on a home in Nelson’s Spring on January 03, an additional seven (7) persons — two (2) nationals of St. Kitts and Nevis and five (5) nationals of Haiti, two of whom currently reside in the Federation — were also taken into custody and placed in quarantine.” Individuals with information are asked to contact the Charlestown Police Station at 469-5391, the nearest Police Station, or the Crime Hotline at 707.