The Nassau Guardian
Bahamas delegation in Cuba for talks
A delegation of senior government officials left for Cuba yesterday to begin talks over the issue of illegal Cuban migrants traveling to The Bahamas, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Fred Mitchell said yesterday.
Mitchell said Foreign Affairs and Immigration Permanent Secretary Philip Miller and Commander of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force Commodore Roderick Bowe head the delegation.
He said they will “begin talks on the modalities of a more efficient return of Cuban migrants to their home country”.
“This is part of the initiatives approved by the Cabinet and which we announced shortly before my departure last week.
“I plan to have discussions directly with the minister of foreign affairs of Cuba in Grenada during the course of this week.
“I want to say with regard to migration matters that I am pleased with the progress that has been made thus far in resolving all the outstanding matters that have so exercised the public over the last weeks.”
Miami based protestors have staged hunger strikes and demonstrations against The Bahamas after a video aired on a Spanish language TV station in Miami purporting to show Cuban detainees being beaten by Bahamian officers.
Mitchell has said that the video is a fake.
A copy of a report into the alleged abuse of Cubans at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre was leaked to the media last week.
The report contains witness statements in which marines admitted to beating detainees.
Aside from the issue of Cuban migration, Mitchell said the delegation will also discuss oil exploration.
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