Dear Editor,
I would like to comment on the Jamaican immigration's decision to deny Radical Muslim leader, Yasin Abu Bakr entry to the country, and also the Government's decision to spend $4 million to send him home.
Let us not try to play politics and gain points on this matter. Looking at the chain of events, things could have gone otherwise, and just maybe we would be looking at a bill of $40 million today.
Let's be realistic, this is Jamaica, and to be honest I don't think that we are properly trained to deal with certain situations. Even in the great America continues to have problems with restraining individuals as it could lead to the loss of life.
Some people are making comparisons and commenting on what happens when our nationals are denied and returned from the said Trinidad and Tobago via commercial flights. Well, let us put things in the right prospective here, even though he doesn't carry a good profile, Yasin Abu Bakr is a very high level individual, and if we had to send him back in a coffin it would have been a big stink at our doorsteps. If Trinidad and Tobago send any of our locals home in a coffin maybe we wouldn't even hear a gun bark about that. Just remember Shanique Myrie -- even though her incident happened in Barbados -- if she didn't take a stand for herself, then nothing would have been done.
Let's not fool ourselves, the decision was a fair enough one amidst all that is happening around us.
They were fair decisions
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I would like to comment on the Jamaican immigration's decision to deny Radical Muslim leader, Yasin Abu Bakr entry to the country, and also the Government's decision to spend $4 million to send him home.
Let us not try to play politics and gain points on this matter. Looking at the chain of events, things could have gone otherwise, and just maybe we would be looking at a bill of $40 million today.
Let's be realistic, this is Jamaica, and to be honest I don't think that we are properly trained to deal with certain situations. Even in the great America continues to have problems with restraining individuals as it could lead to the loss of life.
Some people are making comparisons and commenting on what happens when our nationals are denied and returned from the said Trinidad and Tobago via commercial flights. Well, let us put things in the right prospective here, even though he doesn't carry a good profile, Yasin Abu Bakr is a very high level individual, and if we had to send him back in a coffin it would have been a big stink at our doorsteps. If Trinidad and Tobago send any of our locals home in a coffin maybe we wouldn't even hear a gun bark about that. Just remember Shanique Myrie -- even though her incident happened in Barbados -- if she didn't take a stand for herself, then nothing would have been done.
Let's not fool ourselves, the decision was a fair enough one amidst all that is happening around us.
They were fair decisions
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