Bridgetown.
The Jamaica leg of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) trail in the case of Shaniqule Myrie against the Government of Barbados ended yesterday.
Lawyers representing Jamaican national Shanique Myrie close their case at a hearing of the CCJ which began at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on Monday.
During the hearing Myrie retracted a section of the statement she provided in the case calling it a "mistake".
She contended in paragraph 31 of her statement which was tendered as her testimony in the case, that following her reported ordeal, a female Immigration Officer was directed by a male counterpart to go and retrieve her luggage.
Myrie said the woman then asked her the colour of the suitcase and the full name on it before she left to get the bag.
Under cross- examination by Queen's Counsel Roger Forde, the lead attorney for the Barbados Government, Myrie admitted that she went with the female Immigration Officer to collect the suitcase.
Myrie is claiming that Barbados Immigration subjected her to two painful and embrarrrassing cavity searches and kept her in a dark filthy cell for several hours before she was deported to Jamaica in March 2011.
She is not only seeking damages and a apology from the Government of Barbados but has also asked the CCJ to interpret and apply the revised treaty and determine how CARICOM nationals travelled within region.
Ten witnesses were called during the hearing which is scheduled to resume in Barbados on March 18 when the Government of Barbados will present its case. 
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