Police Commissioner Desmond Blanchard confirmed that at least 30 females from the Dominican Republic come through Dominica's airports each month. Eighty to ninety percent leave legally for St. Marteen via Portsmouth while the remainder leave without the knowledge of immigration authorities. The Independent has been reliably informed that the Dominican prostitutes engage in illicit sex before leaving the island on boats for St. Marteen via St. The prostitutes began arriving earlier this year but the influx intensified in June, an informed source told the Independent. Open and organised prostitution has not been reported in Dominica, Commissioner Desmond Blanchard told the Independent last week, but there are suggestions that persons from Santo Domingo who enter the island at the Melville Hall Airport come here with empty purses but leave with surplus cash which suggests that they prostitute themselves.
Dutch authorities are concerned about the level of illegal immigration.
They recently intercepted a boat from Portsmouth with illegal immigrants from Santo Domingo bound for St. Marteen.