The Royal Bahamas Police Force has provided a briefing on the information now in the possession of the police that led to the demise of these individuals.  The Police report that they were alerted at the Georgetown police station on Thursday 8^th March that persons believed to be Haitian Nationals were wandering in the bushes on the southern side of Bahama Sound, which is an area just south of the old Georgetown International Airport.  Seventeen men were apprehended and the remains of ten other persons were discovered floating in waters nearby. 

It is thought that the individuals were all being smuggled into The Bahamas. 

A Coroner’s Inquest was convened at Exuma on Friday 9^th March conducted by Deputy Island Administrator Bradley Armbrister with a jury selected from the community.  The local Criminal Detective Unit (CDU) provided support for the inquest. The inquest concluded that the deaths were consistent with drowning. 

Following the inquest, the remains were interred in a Christian burial at the Rolletown public cemetery.   

At the request of the Haitian Government, the incident is being reviewed by the Royal Bahamas Police Force, including the interviewing of seventeen men who survived the incident at sea and are now in custody in Exuma.