Roadtown, Tortola - Cabinet has approved the addition of seven persons to the Territory’s Stop List, making it prudent that steps be taken to prevent their re-entry into the Virgin Islands (UK).

The decision taken earlier this month brings to 36 the number of persons barred from re-entering the Territory since 2007.
Four of the seven persons added this year are from the Dominican Republic and the other three are from Jamaica, Puerto Rico and St.Vincent and the Grenadines. 

Their offences included among other things, illegal entry, possession of an illegal document and furnishing false information, possession and importation of cannabis with intent to supply and overstaying their landing permits.

Of the persons entered on the stop list in 2007, seven are from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, five from Jamaica, five from the United States of America and two from the Dominican Republic.

There was also one each from Anguilla, Barbados, Colombia, Dominica, France, Grenada, Guyana, Italy, St. Lucia and St. Kitts and Nevis. 

The offences committed by those included on the 2007 list cover a range of deviant activities including forgery, illegal entry, human trafficking, overstaying, indecent assault, unlawful sexual intercourse, burglary, possession of an unlicensed firearm, drug possession and theft.

The placement of ‘undesirable’ persons on the Stop List is in accordance with Section 25 of the Immigration and Passport Ordinance, Cap 130. To be considered for inclusion on the Stop List, persons would be deemed to have conducted themselves in the Territory in an undesirable manner or for those landing, consideration would be based on information or advice about their undesirability provided by reliable sources.

The persons added to the Immigration Stop List in 2007 and 2009 are grouped by country as follows:

• Anguilla – Gene Leslie Clarke

• Barbados – Omar Eric Lorenza Green

• Colombia – Abel Godoy Cuero

• Dominica – Barthelemy Joseph

• Dominican Republic – Yoslin Acosta      
           Francisco Aguedo
           Pedro Garcia Arias
           Manuel Alberto Ayala
           Rosa Altagracia Castillo Berroa
           Cesar Asmin Paulino Cuevas
   
• France – Stephanie Deguercy

• Grenada – Nicholas Douglas

• Guyana – Keith Wainwright English

• Italy – Andrea Spadoni

• Jamaica – Courtney Anderson
         Sanjay Antonio St. Paul Brisco
         Durmoth O’Kelly Clarke
         Donald Arnaldo Green
         Leonard Knight
         Suzette Morrison

• Puerto Rico - Juan Ramos Rodriguez

• St. Kitts and Nevis – Alvin Noland Clarke

• St. Lucia – Harry Samuel

• St. Vincent and the Grenadines – Rockford Baptiste
         Curtis Allinton Bruce
         Alfred Joel Cabral
         Keith Dorset
         Nathan Hamilton
         Shamal Shamron Jackson
         Dawn Leanora James
         Selmore Glenmore Jarvis

• United States of America – Mark Thomas Albicker
         William Scott Barnett
         Henry Adin Kauffman
         Terry Netzloff
         Misty Amber Yates