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Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds says lo­cal crim­i­nals flee­ing to the Unit­ed King­dom to seek asy­lum to “avoid ac­count­abil­i­ty to the law,” was one of the rea­sons T&T na­tion­als now re­quire a visa to trav­el there.

On Wednes­day, British High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T Jon Dean re­vealed that T&T cit­i­zens would no longer be el­i­gi­ble to trav­el to the UK un­der the Elec­tron­ic Trav­el Au­tho­ri­sa­tion (ETA) scheme and would re­quire a visa to en­ter the coun­try.

The de­ci­sion, he said, was due to a spike in the num­ber of lo­cals seek­ing asy­lum.