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.
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.