SPEED UP ALREADY!! : 8/27/2009
I know a few people on remand for over 2 1/2 years already, the lower court was done with but still waiting for a day in high court. I'd like my friends be freed. They are innocent and shouldn't have been in jail in first place.

Give the man a break : 7/12/2009
I appreciate the he broke the law when he overstayed his time in Barbados, does that mean that the man should be left behind bars for an extended period of time. I guess that this means that every Bajan who lived illegally in another country should be locked away too. Everybody who leave their country and take the risk of being caught by authorities do so in an attempt to make a better life for themselves and their families. I think he should be given amnesty and allowed to stay in B'dos given that he is not permitted to return to Cuba.

LET MY PEOPLE GO : 7/12/2009
I support the lawyers plea. Is the Barbados Government anti black? There are nine Africans from the continent who have been placed in jailed by the Government for over a year. Was it not mentioned that it takes $3000.00 per month to keep a person in jail? Calculate, 9 Africans for over 1 year and tell me if the Government cannot pay to send them home instead, rather than takeing away their dignity? These men have committed no crime. Some of these men was promised that they were going to be sent home on a flight which departed Barbados over a year ago, but instead they were sent to jail. If intransit visas are being refused by the Embassy,they are other routes that can be used. Don't bajans go to other destinations and send monies back home to assist in the development of this island? Can't we remember the time when Bajans were traveling to Guyana in search of work? The old people used to say, what goes around comes around.

Non Nationals : 7/12/2009
It is an enfringment of an individual's right to keep someone lock up for a year without a trial. Why not deport the man. Also, it is about time that the Government of Barbados understand that there are hundreds of Barbadians living in countries that are illegal. Would the Government sit idly by if Barbadians were being treated in that way. Come on, fair is fair. Concerned native

Cuba is also responsible : 7/12/2009
How could a country turn its back on ots own citizens? What is the resident ambassador to Cuba here doing to get his compatriot re-instated.The human right fingers should be pointing to Cuba. This reminds me if the days when Germany was divided, it was not easy to come from the East to the West, but if an individual happened to be a burden on the state, ie, unemployed,disabled, the same machine gun carrying officals would turn the other way and allow the individual to board a west bound train. Communism at its best,and still alive here in the Caribbean. And many may not be aware ,t when Castro took over Cuba in 1959, he shipped back many a Bajan in the middle of the night with only the shirts on their backs.

Non-Return Nationals : 7/12/2009
Probably this is the type of situation that some Caricom Leaders are heading for in relation to its citizens who venture abroad. STAY WHERE YOU ARE, DO NOT COME BACK. (ps.not applicable to remittances)

laws : 7/12/2009
he broke the law did he not know his country laws where by he had to get back home before his time run out let see your mother put you out or you leave home you have a time to return you ignore that now you have broken the law should i let you stay in my house forever the lawyer should let him live at her house and be her buurden since she have a good heart

human rites abuses in bds : 7/12/2009
to my knowlege there are severel africans up there as well who are threatning to committ suicide because of similar issues. our country and gov, need to do something to defend human rites with cases such as these

: 7/12/2009
The court system in barbados appears to be extremely slow, with prisoners on remand wiating for possibiliy a year before their trial reaches the court arena, last week the Nation reported the story of a man who has been held on remand for over seven years. Surely attention must be paid to this situation as I also suspect that many innoncent people are in prison who dont and should not be there. Maybe barbados needs to build more courts and encourage more people to practice law in order that these people can be represented in a timely fashion. It is unfair that people have their freedom taken away and are effectively punished without a proper dare I say fair hearing/trial.