Sweetheart if ya do the crime ya got to do the time. Don’t come bout hey trying to hold the government at ransom.
If ya refuse to eat that is more food for another prisoner.

On what grounds is this man seeking release.  He has been tried, found guilty and sentenced .  You do the crime you do the time.  It is this man’s human rights to decide whether or not he wants to eat.  Provide his meals and if he chooses not to eat it, who cares.  If Cuba does not want its own criminal why should any other country take him.  Let him starve to death that would solve the problem. One less drug trafficker to worry about.

If Cuba does not want him release him in Barbados and make him work for the society. Or get him a plane ticket to where he wants to go and let him leave…....
Is he not costing the tax payers money? He should have been deported the first time and we would not have this problem.

@ Monica Wilkinson: I suggest that you read the article again. The man has served his 15 years and should have been freed 2 years ago. That is not fair. I would be mad as hell and so would you be. He should be freed under a strict monitoring program and kept in a less expensive (to taxpayers) half-way house until Cuban authorities come to their senses. The alternative is to fly him to Cuba and put him at the airport. Nigel D.

He did his time Monica. All 15 years that he was sentenced. Only in Barbados can someone be held an extra 2 years in prison after completing his full prison term. I hope he sues the hell out of the government. Your comment to “let him starve to death” makes you no better than him at all. You mention human rights and let him starve in the same paragrah….I don’t see the coralation Monica.
Peace

Did not the fellow from St. Vincent - the pilot - get a tap on his risk? So why then should this man serve all this time?

Why is Barbados ‘looking’ for someplace to send this man to??? If the man wants to go on a hunger strike that is his choice. Dont we have a Cuban Consulate in Barbados where they can try to help him? Why the hell must we keep him and Cuba where he is born and bred refuses him?! NONSENSE!

Send him to St. Vincent then cause they like they are willing to take drug traffickers!!!!!

Hmm,  the US merrily sends 2nd and 3rd generation convicts back to their ‘homelands’ and these people have no real connections in the islands their parents came from.  So why is our gov’t in such a pickle to put him on a plane to Cuba?  Is it that to buy a ticket to get to Cuba ya first need permission to fly, and since they don’t want him he doesn’t have permission to get a ticket?  Bizarre really.  The man has served his time he should not be in jail.  By now he should’ve contacted relatives to assist him with money and finding a place to go.  I’m not saying put him on the streets but he too has to accept that Cuba (or any other place the article states) ain’t letting him in so he has to think of other options.  Refusing to eat is not helping the situation at all.  Free him and give him a direct ride to the Cuban Consulate and let them make the final decision.  Hopefully, this will be a hard lesson learned by our government to stop holding these drug traffickers in our jails but instead they should charger and deport them and stamp their passports ” Access Denied to BIM”.

If I recall full there’s more to this story.  He had left Cuba? Gone to America? Therefore as a Cuban to land in America, the USA considers him “stateless” and wont deport him back to Cuba for fear he’ll be “tortured”.
Furthermore, Cuba doesn’t take back any Cubans living in USA, probably due to not wanting to let in any C.I.A. trained people.  After this man ran afoul of Barbadian law he’s now a stateless person with a criminal record.  So America wont let him back in, Cuba wont let him back in, and Barbados say they can’t release a non-national onto the street just like that, they are supposed to be deported according to the law, and the only person that can give him clemency is the Head of State The Queen herself (or her Vice-Royal/Governor-General).
IMHO. His best bet would be to write to the United Nations and appeal for a “U.N. Refugee Convention Travel Document.” which would allow him to leave the country (without a passport) That document is for stateless persons.  He probably should move to either Canada or Europe since those countries talk long-and-hard about Human Rights and he can file for citizenship in one of those countries.

Now I know why English is a difficult language to pass…....the story did say the man is still in jail 2 years AFTER serving a 15 year sentence…...what part of that indicates he did not serve his time for the crime?......sad situation if you ask me.

Let me correct myself before someone takes me to task.  After arriving in the country of his choice (with that United Nations Refugee Convention Travel Document), he would file for Refugee status.  Not Citizenship.  He can go to any member state of the United Nations which has ratified that convention and upon landing he could present that document and ask for refugee status.  If i have a question though, did he travel through a lawful port of entry in Barbados and therefore have a passport laying around HMP somewhere for the last 17-18 years?