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T&T third most favoured Caribbean country for refugees


T&T was listed as the third most popular country in the region behind Belize and Dominican Republic respectively, where asylum was being sought by refugees from a number of countries including Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Africa, Asia, Syria, Pakistan and the Middle East.

Estimating that 65.3 million people had been forcibly displaced globally, Nakhid said the Caribbean was not isolated from the refugee crisis.

Revealing a 257 per cent increase in the number of asylum-seekers in the Caribbean region between mid-2015 and mid-2016, she said the numbers had continued to increase steadily from 770 refugees in 2014, to 837 in 2015 and 976 by mid-2016.

Referring to the local situation, Nakhid said there were approximately 640 refugees, asylum seekers and other persons of concern in T&T up to April 30, which was a 62 per cent increase in the number of persons who had applied for asylum in 2016 compared to 2015.

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