The New York-based Guyanese businessman, Mark Phillips, who was strip-searched and placed in a “cold cell” at Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport on Saturday for allegedly being in possession of faked travel documents, has made a formal complaint about his ordeal through the Guyana Government.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday told Stabroek News that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Barbados in relation to the matter.
Phillips met with Director-General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Elisabeth Harper on Tuesday.
The businessman, who was detained for alleged fake travel documents, and whose return ticket to Guyana was confiscated, is seeking an apology from the Barbados government for wrongful detention. He would also like to have his BWIA airline ticket from Barbados to Guyana returned to him along with the receipt.
He had travelled to Barbados for a short holiday on a four-day ticket on February 15 on flight BW 432.
He was not allowed to use his BWIA ticket and bought a return ticket to travel on another air carrier back to Guyana the same afternoon after he was denied entry to the island. (Miranda La Rose)