THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade in Jamaica says it has placed high importance on the reported abuse and dehumanising cavity search of Jamaican Shanique Myrie by a Barbadian immigration officer earlier this month.
In a release yesterday, the ministry said a senior level delegation, including officials from the Ministry of National Security/Passport Immigration & Citizenship Agency (PICA), will travel to Barbados this week for discussions on the serious allegations and on the wider issue of the treatment of Jamaicans by Border Services officials in the eastern Caribbean island.
“The case of Ms Myrie is the most serious one to have been reported to us. The ministry received her written complaint on Wednesday, March 23. The following day (Thursday, March 24) our high commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago, Sharon Saunders sent Ms Myrie’s report to the senior foreign service officer of the Consular/Barbados Network of the Barbadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business. She requested that the case be investigated,” the release stated.
Myrie said she was subjected to two cavity searches before being labelled a man thief when she tried to enter the island through the Grantley Adams International Airport on March 14. She was kicked out of the island the following day.
Bim immigration @ it again?
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Shanique Myrie won her case....
The Bajans have to pay compensation:
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"Myrie was awarded BDS$77,240 by the CCJ which ruled that subjecting her to a cavity search, locking her up in a unsanitary cell and deporting her ran contrary to the rules of the revised Treaty of Chagaramas."
The Bajans have to pay compensation:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Exe ... -Myre-case" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Myrie was awarded BDS$77,240 by the CCJ which ruled that subjecting her to a cavity search, locking her up in a unsanitary cell and deporting her ran contrary to the rules of the revised Treaty of Chagaramas."