Chaguaramas

Chaguaramas Heliport

Trinidad and Tobago

Status

In use

2024

Type: Military base (Ad Hoc)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Trinidad and Tobago Coastguard (Governmental)

Detains: Adult men, Adult women, Families, Accompanied minors, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Conditions complaints? Capacity Reported population
YES

2024

No Data
No Data
Trinidad and Tobago

3,407

Refugees

24,267

Asylum Applications

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ABOUT

The Chaguaramas Heliport was declared a migrant detention centre at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and authorities stated that it would remain in operation for the duration of the pandemic. However, since the WHO declared the pandemic over in May 2023, migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers (amongst them children) have continued to be detained in the facility. Reports allege that the centre is frequently overcrowded, that detainees are provided with inadequate food and water, and that detainees are exposed to sexual abuse.

NEWS & TESTIMONY
2023

"The government permitted occasional monitoring of prisons and other detention centers by UN officials and independent human rights organizations. The government did not generally permit outside observers to monitor the [...]

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FACILITY NAMES
Chaguaramas Heliport
Location

Country: Trinidad and Tobago

City & Region: Chaguaramas, Americas

Latitude, Longitude: 10.68433891186097, -61.615830632477575

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2024
In use
2020
Facility type
Category
Type
Ad Hoc
Military base
Management
Management
Type
Trinidad and Tobago Coastguard
Governmental
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
2020

DETAINEES

Demographics

Name Adult men

2024

Name Adult women

2024

Name Families

2024

Name Accompanied minors

2024
Categories of detainees

Name Asylum seekers (administrative)

2024

Name Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2024

SIZE & POPULATION

LENGTH OF DETENTION

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Inadequate conditions

Separation of different categories of detainees

2024

Overcrowding

2024

Food provision

2024

Access to clean drinking water

2024
Reports of riots or other unrest

Yes

2023

CARCERAL INDICATORS

STAFF

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

No

2023
Age Segregation

No

2024

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

MONITORING & ACCESS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2023

"The government permitted occasional monitoring of prisons and other detention centers by UN officials and independent human rights organizations. The government did not generally permit outside observers to monitor the immigration detention centers in Arima and at the heliport facility in Chaguaramas but allowed one inspection team in the reporting period."