Bert Samuels.
Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels is seeking immediate answers into whether four Jamaicans arrested at sea by the United States Coast Guard were “kidnapped” under the veil of the Shiprider Agreement two months ago.
His query has to do with the recent demolition at sea of the Jamaican-registered vessel
Lady Lawla and the taking into custody of its four-man Jamaican crew, who are yet to be repatriated even after a judge in the Southern District Court of Florida ruled that their detention be terminated.
The men, Anthony Clark (captain), Radcliffe Simmons, Howard Patterson and Warren Rowe, remain in US custody.