The Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil will be ex­am­in­ing how to deal with Cari­com na­tion­als, Cubans, Africans and oth­ers now at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre and “maybe” ex­tend­ing to them al­so a sim­i­lar pro­vi­sion like the Venezue­lan amnesty.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young con­firmed this in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day while re­ply­ing to UNC MP Fuad Khan’s queries on whether Venezue­lans now at the IDC can ac­cess the amnesty al­so. Un­der the plan, Venezue­lans reg­is­tered with Gov­ern­ment are be­ing al­lowed to work for a year here.

Young con­firmed that Venezue­lans at the IDC who don’t have crim­i­nal charges can reg­is­ter. He said on­ly Venezue­lans who are at the IDC for over­stay­ing their time here or who en­tered T&T il­le­gal­ly will be al­lowed to reg­is­ter for amnesty.

Young added, “We al­so had a con­ver­sa­tion at Cab­i­net on look­ing at Cari­com na­tion­als, Africans, Chi­nese, Cubans and oth­er na­tion­als who are cur­rent­ly at the IDC and I’ll be tak­ing a note to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil on how we deal with some of these peo­ple who are at the IDC and maybe, ex­tend­ing the amnesty to al­low them a sim­i­lar pro­vi­sion.”

On UNC MP Rudy In­dars­ingh’s queries on Venezue­lan gangs in­fil­trat­ing T&T, Young said there are cur­rent­ly five Venezue­lan men who are in cus­tody of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS). He said the men are sus­pect­ed of be­ing mem­bers of gangs.

“It’s my in­ten­tion to de­port them,” Young said.

On re­ports that the Venezue­lan Evande gang had in­fil­trat­ed T&T’s bor­der, he said Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry in­tel­li­gence sources have said the leader of the Evande gang was killed along with sev­er­al oth­er gang mem­bers on March 29 in El Caiman, Tu­cucpi­ta, Venezuela.

“The TTPS has ad­vised it’s un­able to as­cer­tain how many mem­bers of the Evande gang, if any, are with­in T&T’s bor­ders,” he said.

Young said probes are still on­go­ing con­cern­ing the Ja­maican na­tion­al who re­cent­ly es­caped Im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties at Pi­ar­co, and how he es­caped from the Pi­ar­co hold­ing room.