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Following is a statement from Ella N. Hoyos, Honorary Consul for Jamaica in Barbados on the passing of Jamaican businessman Elias Azan.
The Jamaican Community in Barbados is shocked and saddened to learn of the passing on Wednesday afternoon of former Honorary Consul for Jamaica in Barbados Mr Elias Azan, O.D. at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston. He was 65 years old.
Mr Azan served as Honorary Consul for Jamaica for over ten years, during which time he also served as Dean of the Consular Corps of Barbados.
Prior to his appointment as Honorary Consul, his service to the Jamaican Community through the Jamaican Association of Barbados both as president and a member of the executive spanned many years.
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By Ansray Thomas
An appeal is expected to be filed for a Jamaican man in Barbados who was sentenced to six months in prison last Thursday for breaching the eastern Caribbean island s COVID-19 protocols when he left a quarantine facility to purchase juice.
The sentence has been described by many as unjustifiably harsh.
Dean Scott, a 49-year-old mason, reportedly pleaded guilty to contravening Paragraph 14 of the Emergency Management (COVID-19) Curfew (No.4) Directive 2020. He was unable at the time to pay a fine of BAD$6,000, and was immediately sentenced to six months by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes, despite other foreign nationals and Barbadians given time to pay their fines for breaching quarantine protocols in the country.
By Ansray Thomas
An appeal is expected to be filed for a Jamaican man in Barbados who was sentenced to six months in prison last Thursday for breaching the eastern Caribbean island s COVID-19 protocols when he left a quarantine facility to purchase items.
The sentence has been described by many as unjustifiably harsh.
Dean Scott, a 49-year-old mason, reportedly pleaded guilty to contravening Paragraph 14 of the Emergency Management (COVID-19) Curfew (No.4) Directive 2020. He was unable at the time to pay a fine of BAD$6,000, and was immediately sentenced to six months by Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes, despite other foreign nationals and Barbadians given time to pay their fines for breaching quarantine protocols in the country.
Barbados Today January 3, 2021
SOURCE: Jamaica Gleaner – In what has been tagged an unduly harsh sentencing, a Jamaican man has been imprisoned for six months in Barbados for breaking quarantine; while influential tourists flouting the COVID-19 protocols, when caught are reportedly given time to pay fines instead of imprisonment.
In fact,
The Sunday Gleaner can confirm that at least one Barbadian who scaled the balcony of a quarantine facility in order to dine out at a restaurant across the island was allowed six months to pay his fine; while Jamaican Dean Scott was used as “an example” by a chief magistrate in Barbados last week.