Four men who are seeking asylum in the Cayman Islands landed in Cayman Brac in a small wooden rowing boat on Friday, 22 Sept.
The men, who travelled over 100 miles from Cuba, arrived at Spot Bay at about 6am where Customs and Border Control Service detained them.
They are currently being housed at the Agriculture Grounds in Cayman Brac until they can be transferred to Grand Cayman, a government spokesperson told the Compass.
Over the coming days, they will be taken to the Customs and Border Control Service Detention Centre or the Bodden Town Civic Centre to be processed.
Earlier this month, on 10 Sept. another four men, also seeking asylum, arrived at the same beach in a small wooden rowing boat and were detained.
Last month, 20 people were detained after arriving in Cayman Brac without appropriate documentation, according to government press releases.
A boat with six men and one woman, of unconfirmed nationality, arrived on the south side of Cayman Brac on 24 Aug.
Just days earlier, at about 8am on 18 Aug., three men, of unconfirmed nationality, arrived in Spot Bay, Cayman Brac.
And on 10 Aug., less than 24 hours after they had been seen arriving on a small wooden boat in Spot Bay, Cayman Brac, 10 men from Cuba were detained in Grand Cayman.
“The migrants chose not to disembark and made the decision to continue on their journey,” according to a CBC press release at the time.
All of the arrivals were processed in accordance with Customs and Border Control Service processing protocols, government press releases said.
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