Police were up to late last evening searching for eight Venezuelan men who escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre, Aripo, earlier yesterday.
While details surrounding how the men escaped the facility remained sketchy, police have identified the wanted men as: Luis Brito, Jose Brito, Roimer Duran, Edison Monroy, Felix Espanol, Edison La Rosa, Everth Ramirez, and Manuel Henriquez.
This is not the first escape at the facility.
In June last year, five people escaped, while in 2019, a total of 19 people escaped from the facility in three separate incidents.
In November last year, Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander said there were issues faced by IDC workers which he hoped to address. He said one is the roof at the facility.
“There seems to be an issue with the roofing area where persons would have made their escape before. We intend to fix that to prevent such a thing from happening again. I understand that five persons escaped; they held two or three of them and never saw the rest.”
At the time, he spoke with Guardian Media after a visit to the facility.
He also spoke of bringing greater legislation to monitor migrants on supervision orders.
“I will go to my AG and fix whatever law is necessary to prevent this type of situation from existing. The country wants to be safe. The country wants to feel safe. And when you hear this type of thing, how could this be?” he questioned then.
