The search continues for four illegal immigrants, a Nigerian, a Guyanese, a Jamaican and a Barbadian, who escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre, in Aripo on Friday night. National Security sources said they continued their search for the men yesterday but came up with nothing.
The four, who were awaiting deportation to their respective countries, reportedly forced open a steel door at the centre around 11 pm, scaled a barbed-wire fence and escaped into the surrounding forested area. A joint police/army/immigration team carried out search exercises around the centre soon after but failed to find the men. On Saturday they extended the search to Wallerfield and Cumuto. The National Operations Centre’s Air Division also joined in with aerial searches.
The men reportedly told other detainees they did not want to be deported and felt Trinidad gave them more opportunities.