Prime Minister, Allen Chastanet, has indicated that Caricom leaders are sensitive to impediments to intra-regional travel and disclosed that the Caricom Secretariat is working on a document to help rectify the problem.
Chastanet disclosed that the Caricom Secretariat has been asked to put together a report, which he assumed would be available in February to deal with the issue.
This comes in the wake of fresh complaints by at least two Jamaican women and a pregnant Guyanese about their treatment at the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados.
Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has spoken out on the issue, asserting that the real problem was not regional governments, rather lay with the refusal of some immigration officers to carry out the law as specified in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) case involving Myrie.
Myrie was awarded damages in the sum of US$38,000 by the CCJ after she filed a lawsuit claiming she was subjected to a dehumanizing cavity search by a female immigration officer at Grantley Adams International Airport, locked in a filthy room overnight and deported to Jamaica in March 2011.
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