White Mennonites kicked out of Suriname

According to Caribbean Life News, Authorities in Suriname have made good on a pledge to expel more than 60 Amish-like white Mennonite farmers from the country, saying they were there illegally and had violated some laws and regulations. Most of the group which had been preparing to establish permanent homes and farms in the country’s interior were placed on a specially chartered flight back to Bolivia from whence they had come at the invitation of a local agricultural company in the past year. A handful of others from a Mennonite group in Mexico remain in the country until officials can get them back home. The expulsions took place at the weekend. Attorney Derrick Veira who had been representing the group in recent months expressed dismay that officials had carried through with the deportations because a judge had set Monday of this week to hear a last-minute appeal to keep them in Suriname on humanitarian and other grou