Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter
DEPORTEES CONTINUE to return to Jamaica in droves as dozens were sent back to the island yesterday.
More than 40 convicts, who have completed their sentences in the United States, landed at the Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, after disembarking from a chartered flight.
"They are all males," a spokesperson at the Criminal Investigative Bureau headquarters, downtown Kingston, told The Gleaner yesterday.
MAJORITY PROCESSED AND RELEASED
By late afternoon, the majority of the deportees had been processed and released.
The majority who returned yesterday were expelled from the United States for fraud, drug-related crimes, illegal firearms, while some were illegal aliens.
The country has received 2,469 deportees since January. Figures provided by the police show that, of that number, 1,137 came from the United States, 976 from the United Kingdom, 186 from Canada and 189 from other countries. Last year, over 4,200 persons were deported to Jamaica.
Up to four months ago, the police said they were facing a legal obstacle in getting permits from the courts to properly monitor persons who have been deemed dangerous deportees.
Assistant Commissioner George Williams who spoke with The Gleaner then, said the process was slow, but that the matter was being addressed.
Head of Operation Kingfish, Assistant Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, said deportees are sent back in large batches once per month.
DEPORTEES SENT BACK PER MONTH 2005
| January | | 275 |
| February | | 294 |
| March | | 268 |
| April | | 228 |
| May | | 295 |
| June | | 310 |
| July | | 284 |
| August | | 274 |
| September | | 242 |
