Letters
March 12, 2013

Not going to Barbados

Dear Editor,

Regarding your front page story in the Sunday Observer about the discrimination of Jamaicans going to Barbados, the discrimination only starts at the airport in Barbados.

I have heard horror stories from Jamaicans who visited as tourists and some who live there. One couple were refused service in a restaurant just because they were Jamaicans and the treatment is widespread by the general population of Barbados against Jamaicans.

I have a self-imposed boycott against that country and all Jamaicans and the Government should do likewise.

Wickham Jamadar

Toronto, Canada

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