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May 20, 2021
Although unknown as a campaign strategist in Barbados, Guy Hewitt is no political neophyte. He spoke to
Barbados TODAY on his leadership in the Windrush scandal that garnered him international recognition.
Hewitt explained that the Windrush scandal was a consequence of the 2012 ill-conceived British immigration policy “to create a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants”. He explained that the outcome of this was that many “elderly, West Indian-born, long-term residents in Britain got shut out of the system.”
Due to a lack of documentation to confirm their status, these Caribbean-born migrants, many Barbadian, were denied the right to work, denied access to their bank accounts, and denied healthcare and other state benefits. The real tragedy was that these undocumented, elderly persons were “not treated as anomalies to be regularised” but as Hewitt explained, as “illegal immigrants”.
The Latest: Syrian-Americans express anger over missiles
April 15, 2018 GMT
9:40 p.m.
Syrian-Americans have expressed anger at the missile strike on their homeland as they celebrated their country’s independence day at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The Morning Call of Allentown reports a crowd of about 50 Syrians chanted in Arabic and sang the Syrian national anthem at the annual event. They also sang the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
The rally in Allentown is usually a celebration of Syria’s independence. But the Syrian community, which is one of the largest in the U.S., is deeply divided about its feelings about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.