Barbados Government Denies That Jamaican Woman Was Finger Rape

Barbados government issue a statement that there is no truth to a report by a Jamaican woman who claimed she was finger-searched before being denied entry into Barbados last week.

The Barbados government is however planning a high-level meeting with the Jamaican High Commissioner to Trinidad to try to prevent any major fallout between the two countries as a result of the media hype surrounding the incident.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Maxine McClean stated at a press conference,

Let me make it absolutely clear that a thorough investigation had been carried out by the Immigration and Customs departments into a report that had been carried in the Jamaican Press suggesting that Shanique Samantha Myrie had been finger-raped by Immigration officers after she arrived on Barbadian soil on March 14

There is absolutely no truth to a story carried in a Jamaican newspaper on Thursday, March 24, that a female citizen of that country was body-searched by Immigration officers on arrival at the Grantley Adams International Airport