Thoughts on Prime Minister Thompson’s New “Amnesty”

By Stabroek staff | May 25, 2009 in Features

In the Diaspora

By Annalee Davis (Annalee Davis is a Barbadian Visual Artist, living and working in Barbados on a series of forty-five artistic projects that investigate the impact and anxieties of intra-regional Caribbean immigration. Please view www.creole-chant.blogspot.com to complete the questionnaire if you have a migratory experience you would like to share or www.annaleedavis.com to see her work.

On Tuesday, May 6th 2009, Prime Minister David Thompson politely informed Parliament of the policy determined by the Subcommittee on Immigration set up in June 2008. Non-nationals have one month to turn themselves into Immigration to regularize their status or be “removed” from December 1 2009...

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In the Diaspora is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guyanese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean

PROJECT 45 QUESTIONNAIRE

Since producing On the Map, Barbados has elected a new government that is stalling on the implementation of Article 45 of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas which allows for the free movement of all nationals within the community. The migrant discussion has gone quiet while deportations seem to be on the increase. I am trying to update information to get more current stories and make more work on this issue. I have to gather the data myself because there is no place for migrants to go to report human rights abuses or difficulties of any sort. If you would like to share your migrant experience with me, please click on the link below and complete the questionnaire. Thank you.

PROJECT 45 QUESTIONNAIRE

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