Jamaican quarantine breaker in Barbados freed after appeal court win loopjamaica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from loopjamaica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jamaican national, Dean Scott, has won the appeal against his six-month sentence in Barbados late last year for breaching the eastern Caribbean island s COVID-19 protocols.
The Barbados Court of Appeal, in its decision on Thursday, ordered that Scott s prison sentence be reduced to two months.
The decision was handed down by Barbados Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham, and Justices of Appeal Rajendra Narine and Margaret Reifer.
In reacting to the court s decision, Jamaican-born attorney practising in Barbados, Michelle Russell, said the effect of the judgment is that Dean Scott was deemed a free man from the time the court hearing concluded this morning (Thursday), only subject to the observance of the strict COVID 19 protocols for his safe release from prison.
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Merchant, father, son remanded to Dodds despite leniency pleas
Article by February 18, 2021
Breaches of COVID-19 rules are getting worse Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes declared Wednesday as he remanded three remorseful men – a shopkeeper and a father and son – to Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds in a bid to send a clear message that the court has taken a hardline stance on lawbreakers.
The trio who appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on two separate cases began spending 28 days at the St Philip facility to await sentencing, their pleas for leniency falling on deaf ears.
“Can’t be doing that level of recklessness in a country that is terrified,” Weekes said to merchant Hamenauth Sarnedranauth after the Crown detailed his crime in court.
AS THE DEBATE about taking the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 rages in Barbados, Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes has advised people to take advice from their doctors and not social media. He was responding to an employee of the Psychiatric Hospital who said he, as well as other staff members, had been offered the vaccine but he was against taking it because he had seen negative things about it in a …