Fifty-one more Haitians arrive

The boat that landed at Ken Wright Pier at 6:20 am yesterday, with 22 Haitians aboard. (Photo: Everard Owen)

Fifty-one more Haitian refugees arrived in Jamaica yesterday, maintaining the flow of boat people to the island nearly six weeks after the overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the winding down of violence with the installation of an interim government headed by Gerard Latortue.

Yesterday's arrivals in Port Antonio, in two rickety sailboats, brought to 361 the number of Haitians who have made the 100-mile sea journey since mid-February when the first boat load arrived.
Of the total number of Haitian refugees to have reached Jamaica, 111 have come since the start of this month.

According to Jamaican officials, of yesterday's group, the first set - 25 men, two women and two boys - landed just before 1:00 am at Folly in Port Antonio.
The next set of 14 men, two men and six boys came ashore at the Ken Wright Pier at Port Antonio's west harbour - their small boat laden with pots, pans, water jugs and clothing.

Haitian refugees began to arrive in Jamaica at the height of civil unrest and an armed uprising by anti-Aristide rebels who crossed into Haiti from the Dominican Republic. Aristide left Haiti on February 29 and was taken to the Central African Republic, but has insisted that he was the subject of a political kidnapping carried out by the United States. The US has denied the charge.

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Members of the Gonaives Resistance Front, remove the statue of General Alexandre Petion from the main square of Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004. The rebels removed the statue because it was put in place for the Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



Haitians arrive at the port of Carrefour, in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 27, 2004. They were among 537 Haitians that were intercepted in the Caribbean by the US Coast Guard and returned to Haiti. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



An Haitian Guard Coast officer carries 4-year-old Belson Saint-Louis upon his arrival to the port of Carrefour, in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 27, 2004. Belson and his father Julien were among 537 Haitian boat people that were intercepted in the Caribbean by the US Coast Guard and returned to Haiti. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



642 Haitian migrants rescued in the Windward Pass sit on the deck of the 210-foot Medium Endurance Cutter Valiant, based in Miami, Florida, while it refuels a 110-ft patrol boat, also conducting migrant interdiction operations, in this image released February 27, 2004. Photo by Reuters (Handout)



Haitian migrants rescued in the Windward Pass by the U.S. Coast Guard, February 27, 2004. Reuters



A Dominican Republic officer escorts relatives of diplomats to a helicopter at the Embassy compound in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004. Three helicopters from the Dominican Republic evacuated people from the embassy. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)



Foreigners are rushed to a Dominican Armed Forces helicpter, as they are evacuated from the Dominican Republic Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 27, 2004. (Reuters/Andrew Winning)

Some people were able to leave and not be sent back.