Department of Immigration
NASSAU| BAHAMAS PRESS continues to warn Prime Minister Hubert Minnis to get a handle on the Department of Immigration before a major collapse of the country begins.
We are learning Immigration Director Clarence Russell, who is a police officer, by the way, has decided to pass over experience in Immigration and promote Junior Immigration Officers without any experience to the top. Senior officers are being superceded by their juniors at Immigration and were given letters to inform them of the same.
One of the officers in the list is a personal Public Relations/photographer for the Director Clarence Russell.
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A man who was unlawfully detained for more than six years was forced to sleep in a car and go hungry as he fought a legal case that resulted in him being awarded $641,000.
Douglas Ngumi’s current lifestyle is a far cry from that of a man who has just won thousands of dollars for unlawful detention, the largest damages ever ordered in a Supreme Court case of its kind.
The Kenyan national said he lives in a Mitsubishi L300 borrowed from a friend, often goes hungry, some days having nothing to eat, and bathes outside.
His most prized possession, he said, is a cell phone given to him by his lawyers – though he repeatedly loses such devices because he said he can’t properly secure them.