Chinese fined for entering Dominica with false passports

Four Chinese nationals have been fined $700.00 each or two months in jail, after being found guilty in a Roseau magistrate court, of trying to enter Dominica with false passports.

On December the 9th, 2018, five Chinese were arrested at the Douglas Charles airport when they were caught trying to enter the country with passports from the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The five were charged and subsequently appeared at the magistrate’s court in Roseau where four of them pleaded guilty and the charge against the fifth was dropped.

The maximum fine for such offence is $3000.00.

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46 Comments

  1. mention
    December 18, 2018

    I dont expect nothing better from that punishment. now you have to ask yourself wats in MOU. Does these foreign national get a free pass or a slap on the wrist because of the agreement. I have noticed even chinese have more rights than us now. Our ppl are being expoited in their stores getting miserable salaries and the powers that be are not addressing it. I think we should all be punish the same way because all crime is crime

  2. jazz53
    December 17, 2018

    Dominica wake up you are losing your BIRTH PLACE!!

    • Saunders bon jean
      December 18, 2018

      Losing??? That’s an understatement Jaaz53 it like 53 becoming 35. similar to from independent to crown colony anew. DA is long gone. The folk just stood by as it was being taken away.In 2004 after Pierro’s death( the last gladiator/bastion of resistance to foreign dominance) up came the pararasites , Saprophytes, opportunists with human faces. Greens turn red blues turn red Rasta turn red( remember they got a few $ from KakaDoc! Things just continued to worsen see where we are today 12-18-2018.being nice ain’t gonna solve anything today. That was yesterday. I blame DA’s condition to all the coward cowboy pres Cai Leftists of the 80’s DFP had a radical wing which seized the opportunity of 1979.
      Just like this times we were post hurricane(David) we were more or were we less primitive? WE had educated men and women on all sides. Today we have Kakadoc,DocAmbass A Dr. this & Dr.Dat and they full of it. If U want ur freedom DA, Take it. The dictatorship is sitting tight.Let’s…

  3. December 17, 2018

    “What happen fellas all u miss d boat nah” double (Dr) PhD have passport giving to all Rogues; Vagabonds and Criminals all over the place; doh fake the thing boys no due diligence just show up on “the INTERPOL most wanted list”; $700 what!! a joke!!!!! dat man.

  4. Tobby
    December 17, 2018

    Chinese is above the law in Dominica or what or they have certain privileges we do not know about. $700 dollars for forging such a document. This magistrate ain’t easy, I wonder if he/she would be so lucky.

    • FORKIT
      December 18, 2018

      i guess he was instructed.

  5. Tobby
    December 17, 2018

    I am confused, it look like Chinese above the law in Dominica and have more privileges than all Dominicans. $700 for a forging a such a document.

  6. Jerry Francis
    December 17, 2018

    If I lose my passport for whatever reason. I must pay $500 and someone is entering on a false passport and is charged $700.

  7. UKDominican
    December 17, 2018

    There is something about this that does not add up. Chinese citizens, have visa freee access to Dominica and can stay for up to three months, so why would they be travelling on passports from Taiwan, Korea and Hongkong?
    I believe we are not told the full story here. They could be criminals, wanted by China and chose these documents not to arouse suspicion as Chinese is spoken and understood in all these three territories . What if they were on a wanted list from China, who alerted the Dominica authorities so they could be apprehended here on arrival. The legal process was unusually quick, the fines only token ones. Don’t be surprised if they ware released into the care of the local embassy of China at the earliest and sent to China at the earliest opportunity so as to keep them, and this case, out of the limelight to face the court in China for trial.

  8. December 17, 2018

    All u in dominica is really midera.all keep a haitian 8 month in jail for the same story.and ask him 80000.00 dollards to deed bail him.all u even beat him in all u jail.prevent is girl friend to bring him a peace of food.now the chinese to the same thing all asking 700 dollards or 2 month in jail.all u are modera for real.that why dominica came so.criminal

  9. Unknown
    December 17, 2018

    $700????? That’s it? Dominica is a joke

  10. Serious times for a foolish nation
    December 17, 2018

    According 2 Blessings they started b faking our Flag etc more so with the position of the parrot.
    They graduated to passport faking. What’s next they have a major ally.

    • derp
      December 17, 2018

      same thing I was thinking if you look at the parrot in real life it looks nothing like the parrot on the flag, a bunch of fake Dominican flags waving in the air…

  11. John brown
    December 17, 2018

    Me as a Dominican if the police hold me entering backdoor, they want to jump on you beat you up and charge you $5000.00 in court. So why the system so hard with we Dominican and so easy on those Chinese. This is just not right .

  12. foreign observer
    December 17, 2018

    Here’s an alternate perspective on the seemingly “small” fines meted out by the magistrate:
    1) if they were detained between December 9 and today, it was at the expense of Dominica (since they were all in court one assumes this was the case);
    2) when arrested, there was probably an examination of how much money was in their possession on arrival;
    3) fines assessed likely considered the cost they must pay to be returned from wherever they came without (hopefully) costing Dominica 5 airfares;
    4) if paid forthwith, guilty parties should be removed immediately without incurring significant additional costs to Dominica.

    The real issue in this report is the lack of detail to address the points above! So perhaps the magistrate adopted a pragmatic, dollars and cents approach to the matter?

  13. derp
    December 17, 2018

    but wait awhile how they made it all the way to Dominica on those fake passports, and in Dominica they catch them, not bad Immigration personnel, good job, bad job on the magistrate smh

  14. Pragmatik
    December 17, 2018

    Meanwhile people entering the US illegaly are supposed to be victims right? And the president is wrong for trying to enforce immigration laws. Bunch of hypocrites. If you all think entering on a fake passport deserves a harsh punishment how much more should illegally crossing a border, using fake social security to get jobs and benefits, overstaying visas, lieing to immigration to go have babies for citizenship etc should get? Wrong is wrong whoever is the perpetrator

    BTW the chinese are also notorious for abusing the anchor baby loophole. Go figure

    • ResearchBeforeYouComment
      December 17, 2018

      Yes he is wrong for trying to “enforce immigration laws” because the US laws make specific provisions for individuals seeking asylum in the US. Therefore, what Trump is doing at the boarder and the restrictions that he intends to enforce are unconstitutional for migrants seeking refuge. What the Chinese individuals have done does not align with any provisions within own laws or constitutions therefore they are to be held accountable.

    • Belle bouef pou Jeff
      December 17, 2018

      Our TOP Ministers have anchor babes aussi

      And we planning to give another term or NOT

      • Saunders bon jean
        December 17, 2018

        where is my bon jean Ms Saunders ? Anybody seen her/it ? Her 5 cents piece is missing as the partner ( our local Larry King with suspenders and all would say back in the day.

        MIA Saunders where where are you? doing ur xmas shopping?

      • Pragmatik
        December 17, 2018

        I don’t support the current administration. Probably the same hypocrites crying about the chinese here and they themselves have anchor babies. BTW I heard that some in the opposition have anchor babies too. Is that true??

      • Viewsexpressed
        December 17, 2018

        All this is the making of failed immature Skerrit and his hopeless childish 18 ministers.
        These waste of time political clowns have killed Our Dominica..tarnished her name wuth Bobol afer Bobol and these idiots must go.

    • Daryl joseph
      December 17, 2018

      Sure wrong is wrong but won’t you rather see the fine at $3000 instead of $700 how much do the local brother pay for having a weed how much jail time people get?
      We cant keep saying well it happens in other countries so we can oppress our own people. If Dominicans breaks laws in other countries has nothing to do with some one entering the country illegally and only having to pay $700 instead of $3000

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      December 17, 2018

      You do not make any sense; there is a difference in people from South America walking crossing a boarder into the United fleeing from oppression, and a very hard life.

      There is a law which gives them the legal right to do so; however they must enter at a boarder entrance, and apply for asylum. Not everyone is accepted, many are deported back to their country immediately.That is different to what the Chines did, they have committed a felony, by presenting forged passports.

      This time I must give credit to the immigration officials, and credit to my country for detecting, and capturing these culprits, that means we have somebody in the country trained for that purpose.

      And let me  inform you; nothing Trump does is in the interest  of America, you had better be quiet  because Trump classify your country as a sh.. hole country (for a better word “a feces hole country”); and he ask the question “how come America cannot get its immigrants from all white Europe!

      • Pragmatik
        December 17, 2018

        No I will not be quiet. Who are you to tell me what to do? And the man is doing his job as president to make things better for his country. And the results are showing. He called DOMINICA a ….hole? Where’s the source on that? I will wait…

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        December 18, 2018

        I have to direct you to be quiet, in other words shut up!

        The situation in Dominica is not even similar to what is going on in America; in Dominica it not a refuge situation, it is about Chines criminals presenting false forged documents to enter Dominica illegally! They do not have a right to do that, and rather than letting them pay a fine they should be immediately be deported from Dominica.

        It is foolish for you to  support Donald Trump in his ignorance, when that man hate Black people with a passion; any Dominican who supports Donald Trump is a ignorant as him. Worry about Dominica, and state in our country exists, if you are in Dominica, your business should  to be in the crowed supporting Durant who is championing the cause for electoral reform!

        All over Europe there is an Exodus of oppressed people seeking refuge as the South Americans are doing. You do not know what the heck is going, you are just talking nonsense!

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        December 18, 2018

        I could not complete my comments because the site only allows 170 words, but if you are asking me where is the source of Trumps derogatory demeaning comments, calling Black people country sh.. hole country, and directly pointed out Haiti, you must be living in a crab hole!

        His comments was even brought up in the United Nations. In places in Africa, American ambassadors had to explain Trumps conduct governments; that is the problem with some of you Dominicans, you are not informed yet you are holding on to Donald coat tail; he does care about you, and Dominica.

        While you support him, there are seventeen (17) investigation in process involving Trump right now, by the time they are over he might be impeached (do you know the meaning of that?) He is a compulsive liar!

        If you are asking for a source, that tell me you are simply a johnny come lately! perhaps you need to change your name from pragmatic to stupidity, because you don’t know anything!

      • Pragmatik
        December 19, 2018

        You still haven’t provided any evidence that he called DOMINICA a ….hole. Haiti is not my country. Even dominicans think haiti is a bad place so how is Trump wrong here? Some dominicans don’t even want to touch haitians or deal with them.

        I worry about my country which is why I support Trump because if the US does well it is a good thing for us here also considering that so many of our people live in the states. Also Trump is a push back on all the garbage and nastiness that have festered under Obama’s watch.

        That’s why so many people hate Trump. The threat to roll back the decision on abortion, the threat to curtail this disgusting LGBT agenda that’s trying to destroy society etc etc. Look at that women’s march it was all about ABORTION.

        The only reason black people think they must hate Trump is because some of you have been absolutely duped into believing he hates black people.

        Funny how he wasn’t this rabid racist before he became president.

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        December 19, 2018

        Don’t worry about my spelling!

        Go into a grocery store, or a clothing store, a care dealership, or try to buy a house; and when the bill is presented to you; say to the person attending to you: I don’t have any money, but my spelling is good I’ll pay you with my good spelling!

        Where are you from fool?

        I have no use for people like you; if you are suggesting that I prove Trump called Dominica a shi. hole country, I can tell you are dumb! And that’s all I have to say to you; crawl back into the crab hole from which you came, take Trump along with you!

    • Pragmatik
      December 17, 2018

      The funniest thing is that none of you all lecturing me about law can even spell BORDER for christ’s sake pick up a book and stop watching CNN. People are breaking laws, those “asylum seekers” tried to forcefully enter into the country. Trump clearly states that if they want asylum they have to do it the right way.

      Also I’m not even talking about the caravan. I’m talking about illegal immigration in general. As in people crossing the border ILLEGALLY, overstaying visas, lieing on immigration forms as to the purpose of their visit etc (visa fraud).

      You all can twist it every which way you want but you all know very well what I’m saying here. BTW I agree that these men should have gotten harsher penalties. Just like how they abuse the 14th ammendment (the same chinese) in the US with their anchor baby business its the same way here they are making false documents to try to enter our country.

      How you all cannot see the obvious parallels in illegal activity is mind boggling

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        December 18, 2018

        You are the uninformed who watch CNN, and even if you are watching CNN you are still behind the times dumbfounded, and delusional!

        I live in the city of Los Angeles California; on my televisions of which I have four in my house, on which I have more than two hundred networks that I can view daily; around the clock 24 X 7; I have smart news on a smart phone, which deliver  to me the news as it happens. I am in the know; you are a nobody talking about Trump as if you know him and he knows you.

        Before Trump, America was, after Trump America will be! The prosperity which Trump inherited are all due to what Obama did when he became President and took the country from the brink of collapse when the housing industry collapsed.

        Trump is doing what good for his country? The hundreds of children three months old infants he is dragging from parents, at the boarder is good to you!

        Shut up! 

      • Pragmatik
        December 19, 2018

        How about you use all that technology you have available to you to at least learn how to spell a word as simple and important to your argument as BORDER. Considering that you are here trying to lecture people.

        And what is this nonsense about separating children from their parents? This is literally the same propaganda that comes from outlets like CNN, verbatim. And you have to be really STUPID to think that in this world of technology you have some type of upper hand on information availability by living in the US.

        I can see all of those same channels that you see. I have both a fire stick and roku stick on each of my two 50 inch smart TVs. I have a high powered computer with a 3 screen triple monitor setup that I can look at multiple news streams on one screen, youtube videos on another screen and still be doing constructive work on the third!

        So get out of here with your fake elitism. You are nothing better than anyone here. You are just a name on a forum lmao

  15. jeff
    December 17, 2018

    “Lord help this nation” their is no need for name calling like that. Maybe that’s what the law required, or it was a honest mistake. what more allyou want put them in prison and throw away the key. Quick to anger slow to judge as they say,we do not know the full facts.

  16. Daryl joseph
    December 17, 2018

    Just wanted to take the opportunity to wish the entire DNO team a blessed and happy holiday season.
    All the best
    Daryl

    ADMIN: Thank you, we wish you the same as well.

  17. Daryl joseph
    December 17, 2018

    And in the mean time people are being jailed in China for practicing christianity.
    This is a perfect example of what’s wrong. I’ll stop

  18. December 17, 2018

    This guys underestimated our country they thought we didn’t have system in place to detect their fake passports,I hope they contact their country to check if they’re criminals,

    • Carltymas
      December 17, 2018

      I am thinking that they would be deported back to their home countries. These men eluded security from several airports before coming here. Kudos to the people at our airport who picked up on this.

  19. December 17, 2018

    just a slap on the wrist as usual.. what if it were a Dominican caught trying to enter their country with fake passports… OH

  20. Trac trac
    December 17, 2018

    Just $700.00…r joke dat na

  21. Shaka Zulu
    December 17, 2018

    Thats a joke or what? Were they then released, deported, or held on remand? Max fine 3000 but asked to pay 700. Hmmmmm. The magistrate might as well hugged and kiss them and put boi carib bouquets around thier neck and have a welcoming ceremony.

    • Pragmatik
      December 17, 2018

      Wait aren’t you the same guy who was making a big fuss about Trump’s immigration policies? The irony

  22. My Land D/A!
    December 17, 2018

    Dominica is a FREE PORT lmao!! $700 is money to charge someone for entering a country illegally stupes. D/A a f#*king joke of a country smh.. They charging u hard for d same Marijuana they wanna legalize dr and for fake passport not even 1K PFF jokers!! #Di country nice.. :D

    • zandoli
      December 17, 2018

      It is all well and good to be crying foul. How many Dominicans are all over the world living in countries on expired visas? How many have entered other countries via the “back door”?

      Some of you people love to pontificate, but all you have to do is look in the mirror.

  23. weh
    December 17, 2018

    $ 700 fine what kind of deterrent is that?

    • Smiling
      December 17, 2018

      Skerrit & his immigration have signed the MOU we do not know their agreements . So there could be a clause which says : When Chinese break laws give them consideration as we are pumping $ into ur country.
      Remember a few Chinese who were working on our roads wanted to fight a guy turn off road to his home? The Chinaman/men had the gull to enter the man’s house. Good thing am not living in DA.( I done give up on my people politicians like citizens)
      So dem 5 chinamen were thy deported after they presented in court?
      I rest my case

  24. Lord help this nation
    December 17, 2018

    Four Chinese nationals have been fined $700.00 each or two months in jail, after being found guilty in a Roseau magistrate court, of entering Dominica with false passports.

    So you mean to tell me that is the fine them chien getting for entering our country illegally? this is nonsense, them cross-eyes getting away with anything once they land in Dominica. Let a Dominican try that in china and see if you ever seeing the light of dAY AGAIN.

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