Attorneys want substantial compensation for Jamaican national

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Lawyers for a Jamaican national who claimed that their client had been discriminated against because of her nationality when she travelled to Barbados on March 14, 2011 called for substantial compensation as the matter resumed at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Monday. Attorney Michelle Brown told the six-member CCJ panel of judges that the regional court, should also lay down firm guidelines pertaining to the treatment of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nationals at airports throughout the 15-member regional grouping. Shanique Myrie, 25, alleged that when she travelled to Barbados on March 14, 2011 she was discriminated against because of her nationality, subjected to a body cavity search, detained overnight in a cell and deported to Jamaica the following day.