Update: Our source has just reported the following which we have listed in bullet form for your easy understanding. If there are Barbadians at large who are privy to where the illegal African immigrants are hiding-out please do your civic duty and call the authorities.
- The Ambassador of Ghana who is based in Cuba has arranged a flight which is scheduled to arrive in Barbados tomorrow 02 May 2008. This arrangement was made in collaboration with the Barbados and Ghana governments
- The operative who arranged the flight from the Ghana to the Caribbean was in the custody of the Ghanaian authorities and negotiations took place to arrange for that operative to fund the return flight. It has been confirmed that jobs were being advertised via posters in Ghana with a pay rate of USD10.00 per hour
- A second flight which was scheduled to arrive in Barbados with other Ghanaians seeking job opportunities was cancelled after the stink of the scam started to come to light.
- The Pan African Commission in Barbados caught wind of the details of the coming of the Ghanaian Airlines two days before its arrival back in February 2008 and seized the moment to involve government to espouse the virtue of increasing tourism traffic from the Mother Country, Africa.
- Of note should be that when government intervened and rolled-out the red carpet treatment the local representative who collaborated with the Ghanaian operative was a no-show when the Ghanaian Airways flight touched down at Grantley Adams International Airport, this explains why Mr. Knight the local operative was seconded.
- Of the 50 Ghanaians who travelled on to Trinidad and Tobago two are in prison and the others are at large. This current state of affairs explains why the media in Trinidad has been cooped to disseminate the information about the planned return flight on Friday.
Earlier Story
The tireless Adrian Loveridge keeps going the extra mile to demonstrate how the concept of performing ones civic duty should be applied. All Barbadians have now reached a heightened state of disbelief, and some might add embarrassment concerning the Nigerians and Ghanaians who have been able to command entry into Barbados under what should have been suspicious circumstances. What is obvious to bystanders is the strong scent of a scam at work. Unsubstantiated reports to BU have fingered some very prominent people in this fiasco.
dear mr adrian,
good day sir,i got your contact that your helping people that who want enter barbados,pls sir i want to know how it works,and what it will take and the areayou will help me?i am a nigerian,what are the steps that i will take,pls i want the wholeinfo from you regarding this trip,thanks,i need your reply urgent.and also sir,pls can you tell me what is happening to the seasonstravlsagency in accra ghana,which that brought some west africans to barbados infebuary?and also the conditions of those stranded at barbados?pls i am waitingfor your reply,soonest.from,emmanuel echendulagos-nigeriaSubmitted by Adrian Loveridge
As usual we cannot wait on our media to get into the field to sniff out the meat to this story. We are on record as stating if we had disposable funds we would get on a plane to Ghana to ask the hard questions. We commend our government which has tried to handle this matter with a humanitarian biase. However we are of the view that the time has come to send some messages to people on the outside. They are foreigners outside of our shores who are of the view that the open door immigration policy of Barbados is ripe for exploitation. The unpatriotic acts of the Global AfriKan Congress and others who have been responsible for generating bad public relations for Barbados on this matter should be ashamed of themselves, it is truly an indictment of our touted educational system.
As the economic crisis takes root globally more people who currently live outside of Barbados will seek greener pastures. Commonsense supports the view that capacity planning and philosophical views must be in harmony. It is not good sense to explain the open door immigration policy of Barbados by saying our parents and grand parents were able to search out work in Panama, Guyana, Trinidad and others. We note that Senator Maxine McClean indicated very early on appointment to her ministry that the issue of immigration was high on her agenda.
We continue to wait on the new David Thompson government’s policy on our immigration policy going forward.
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