A man who claims to be Guyanese recently admitted in a Barbados court to jumping off a cement boat and swimming to the shores of the Land of the Flying Fish where he remained illegally for months before being arrested.
Colis Arlington Paul, 36, was ordered to remain in the custody of immigration by a magistrate and to pay his own way back to Guyana. However, the Barbados Today newspaper reported that his detention has posed a problem to the authorities because of the COVID-19 pandemic protocols.
On Tuesday Paul appeared before the island’s Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes and pled guilty to entering Barbados by sea except than at a port of entry and disembarking without the consent of an immigration officer.