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Date: 12:59 04/11 2010

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THIRTY-ONE Haitians landed in the south-eastern Jamaican parish of St Thomas yesterday evening, almost two weeks after the Government sent home 67 who had made their way here by boat late last month."The group, consisting of 15 men, five women -- two of them pregnant -- and 11 children, was seen at sea close to Morant Point in a 27-foot boat," Mervin McNab, superintendent of police in charge of St Thomas, told the Sunday Observer yesterday.Police said the group of Haitians had been travelling since Monday."A group of fishermen first spotted the group and later raised an alarm to the coast guard and the police, who brought the group to shore at the Bowden Wharf," McNab said, while pointing out that the Haitians were all screened and checked.The police said that following assessments, they found that several of the Haitians had been to Jamaica before.

Up to press time last night, police said arrangements were being made to house the group in Port Antonio, Portland, the same town where the 67 who arrived last month were accommodated before they were repatriated to their homeland.

Last month, at a press conference at Jamaica House, Information Minister Daryl Vaz said the first group of Haitians would have been allowed to stay in the island for two-and-a-half weeks before they were sent home.

Vaz said with the country in such dire economic straits, the Government was unable to accommodate the Haitians for any extended period of time.

Following the magnitude-7.0 earthquake on January 12 that killed more than 200,000 Haitians, injured hundreds of thousands others and destroyed much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, the Jamaican Government said it would be on the lookout for Haitian refugees.

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