{"id":169378,"date":"2023-02-24T18:47:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=169378"},"modified":"2023-02-24T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:47:52","slug":"organized-migration-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/organized-migration-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized Migration From Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Observation<\/h1>\n

The time has come for us in these beautiful islands of the Caribbean to decide with whom we wish to share our space, and who will comprise our citizenship platform in the future for our children.<\/p>

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Initially, post slavery, the remnants of our colonizers and their mixed children formed the diminished base of non-black citizens It followed soon in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana with \u2018indentured labourers\u2019 introduced where the injection of East Indians colonized by Britain were exported to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

In Antigua, the early 1900s saw the rapid decline of the white population as the British returned to the UK and the Lebanese began arriving from America as deportees, (by their claims).<\/p>

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In later years later the Syrians arrived through Trinidad and other gateways, and in more recent times we have seen the rapid expansion of the Chinese population, followed by a trickle of East Indians, some of executive rank.<\/p>

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Today, by design or otherwise the new Africans from West Africa have arrived in a series of charters, causing diversion in elections and conversations in the media and political arena.<\/p>\n

Looking around the islands, and in particular Antigua, the diversity of internationals comprising the populations of the islands is growing daily, and not by invitation, except in the case of the CIP programs which are commercial in nature.<\/p>

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Which demands the responsibility of Government through Immigration to keep check of the population, so that the indigenous people, and those whose ancestry is bled into the soil, are not outvoted and overlooked by the diverse new nationals.<\/p>\n

It is with this in mind, that the urgent matter affecting the future of the West Africans newly arrived on our islands, must begin to take on a more humanitarian role rather than the contempt now rolled into the \u2018poor migrant\u2019 settler.<\/p>

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It it important for us in the Caribbean to accept the responsibility of humanitarian expectations, and invite help from the United Nations Humanitarian arm.<\/p>

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First of all the Government, Leadership and Opposition must jointly agree to have all Africans left in Antigua properly scanned for unacceptable persons who must be returned to Nigeria, the country of the aircraft charter origin.<\/p>\n

It is preferable for this due diligence be done using the CIP procedure which satisfies the US, UK, Europe & Canada, our main countries re movement of our people.<\/p>\n

For international cooperation Antigua must first come to the table with clean hands, and an independent investigation of the entire airlift of the Africans to Antigua.<\/p>\n

Clearly the Cameroonians who cannot return home will be entitled to some humanitarian accommodation, similar to the open armed welcome evinced by European neighbors giving to Ukrainians fleeing the war.<\/p>\n

This however will depend on their status, mindful of military types who may have been part of the Anglophone separatists escaping reprehensible actions.<\/p>\n

Those who are not inclined to accommodate the Africans should look down the years ahead, at our population developing with lots of people who do not look like us, native Antiguans.<\/p>\n

Although we object to the Nigerian living here who arbitrarily decided that Antigua was under populated.<\/p>\n

He and others acted illegally and immorally in importing the Africans to Antigua and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

This is not unlike John Hawkins, who sailed to the \u2018Guinea Coast seized four hundred negroes and made off to the Caribbean with his human cargo!<\/p>\n

Are we reversing the Triangular Trade with new rogues?<\/p>\n

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