Bridgetown.
The first stage of month long case brought by Jamaican Shanique Myrie against the Government of Barbados will start in Jamaica before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today.
Roger Forde, QC, who is leading the legal team on behalf of the Government of Barbados arrived in Jamaica over the weekend.
"I have faith in the evidence as put by our witnesses and I fully believe in what they told us" Forde told journalists, before leaving Barbados for Jamaica.
He explained that there will very little law discussed during the early stages, as each side put witnesses on the stand to support their cases.
During this week, six witnesses for Myrie along with four witnesses for the Jamaican Government, which has been granted leave to join the proceedings as an intervener will testify.
They testimony will be followed on March 16 by a walk through at the Grantley Adams International Airport where specific areas and rooms mention in statements submitted to the CCJ will be pointed out.
The Barbados witnesses will will testify on on March 18 to 22 when the CCJ sits in Bridgetown and legal arguments will be advanced April 8 to the 9 when the court returns to its Port of Spain headquarters.
Myrie has alleged that when she arrived at the Grantley Adams International Airport on march 14, 2011, she was verbally abused by immigration officers, subjected to a body cavity search and illegally denied entry into the island.
The Government of Barbados has denied the charges.
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