In what is being hailed as a landmark judgment, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday awarded Jamaican Shanique Myrie Bds$75,000 (or J$3.6M) in damages after finding that she had been wrongfully denied entry into Barbados, while upholding the right of Caricom nationals to enter member states without harassment.
In a judgment delivered at the CCJ’s Headquarters in Port of Spain yesterday morning, the court also found that Myrie had been subjected to a humiliating cavity search and unlawfully detained overnight in a cell and expelled from the island.
The court also ordered Barbados to refund Myrie her
