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Friday, February 21, 2014
OPPOSITION Senator Robert 'Bobby' Montague recently called on Foreign Affairs Minister Senator AJ Nicholson to press the Barbadian Government to pay Jamaican ShaniqueMyrie the nearly $4 million in damages she was awarded by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) last year.
Myrie, in 2011 on a visit to that island, was detained at Grantley Adams International Airport and subsequently deported after being subjected to an illegal body cavity search and what she said was demeaning treatment.She filed a suit against the Barbadian Government but is yet to receive the US$38,620 in pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages that the CCJ awarded her in October 2013.
As a party to the Treaty of Chaguaramas, Barbados has an obligation to comply with all the judgements of the court promptly.
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