BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Advocate – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will give its ruling in the matter of Shanique Myrie against the Government of Barbados at a later date, which is yet to be announced.
The matter came to a close yesterday at the CCJ’s Headquarters in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, with President of the CCJ Dennis Byron adjourning the matter so the seven-judge panel can deliberate on the evidence provided in the case.
Final submissions for the case of Shanique Myrie against the Barbados Government began on Monday at the CCJ’s headquarters in Port-of-Spain. Myrie’s attorney Michelle Brown asked then that her client be awarded almost Bds$1 million in moral and punitive damages for the treatment she received on her first-ever trip to island three years ago, as well as special costs. During her submissions, Brown accused the Government of Barbados of being involved in a huge cover-up after local authorities allegedly trampled on Myrie’s rights. She urged the judges to completely believe the testimony of Shanique Myrie, who claims she was discriminated against because of her nationality when she arrived in Barbados on March 14, 2011 and subjected to a body-cavity search in unsanitary and demeaning conditions, before being detained and deported the next day to Jamaica.
