KINGSTON, Jamaica - A senior Jamaican immigration official yesterday conceded, during the Shanique Myrie trial before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), that there was no significant disparity in the number of Caribbean nationals denied entry to Barbados in the last five years when compared to Jamaica.
The admission by Ephieum Allen, the acting deputy director for immigration at the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA), came while he was being questioned about the statistics tendered as evidence in the landmark case.
The Jamaican Government joined the Shanique Myrie case last year in a move it said was aimed at safeguarding certain rights and freedoms that should be accorded its citizens under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.