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US student jailed for violating quarantine in Cayman Islands: reports
NY Post ^ | December 17, 2020 | 5:50pm | Stephanie Pagones, Fox News

Posted on 12/17/2020 4:27:04 PM PST by conservative98

An 18-year-old student from Georgia and her watersports-athlete boyfriend were sentenced to four months by a Cayman Island court after she slipped out of her wristband monitor to watch him compete at a local race instead of quarantining after arriving from the U.S., according to local reports.

Skylar Mack and her boyfriend, Cayman Islands-based competitive Jet Skier Vanjae Ramgeet were jailed immediately after their sentences were handed down on Tuesday. An island judge issued the four-month term after overturning a previous sentence of 40 hours of community service and a $2,600 fine each, according to a report from the Cayman News Service.

“This was as flagrant a breach as could be imagined,” Grand Court Justice Roger Chapple told the court, according to the Cayman Compass. “It was borne of selfishness and arrogance.”

He also handed down the same punishment for Ramgeet, a local man who the jurist said should have been smarter.

Mack allegedly violated the quarantine requirements just two days after arriving at the Cayman Islands in late November. After asking government officials to loosen a wristband monitor that she said was too tight, she allegedly slipped out of the equipment and went to Ramgeet’s Jet Ski competition for hours, according to the reports.

She allegedly exposed four families, who were then required to quarantine. It was not immediately clear if Mack or the four families tested positive for the coronavirus.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: caymanislands; coronavirus; guilty; notguilty; rogerchapple; skylarmack; uk

1 posted on 12/17/2020 4:27:04 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

From the picture at the website, she looks Not Guilty to me.


2 posted on 12/17/2020 4:29:35 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
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To: conservative98

Sorry Skylar. Sometimes you can’t smile and flirt your way out of trouble. You’re not in Georgia right now.
Do not forget, there are some countries that either don’t like or are jealous of Americans to begin with.
Don’t give them a reason to make an example of you.


3 posted on 12/17/2020 4:39:40 PM PST by lee martell
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To: conservative98

4 posted on 12/17/2020 4:40:45 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep

She is not guilty.


5 posted on 12/17/2020 4:41:34 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: nwrep

6 posted on 12/17/2020 4:41:58 PM PST by nwrep
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To: conservative98
competitive Jet Skier


7 posted on 12/17/2020 4:43:54 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
She is not guilty.

Let's not rush into things. In such a case an in-depth de-briefing could be necessary.

8 posted on 12/17/2020 4:46:29 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: conservative98

Not guilty at all.


9 posted on 12/17/2020 4:49:37 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Live Free or Die)
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To: conservative98
Why would people laugh and revel in a young, non-violent, 18 year old girl being put in a stinking foreign jail?

Wake up folks.

If you can't see the handwriting on the wall by now, you'll never get it.

What awaits all humanity is global tyranny, and they haven't gotten started yet.

10 posted on 12/17/2020 4:51:33 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: DoodleBob
"competitive Jet Skier"

Yeah. "What?" is right. In other words, this jackass is a jobless bum.

11 posted on 12/17/2020 5:17:14 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: conservative98

Now we know what it takes to lock her up.


12 posted on 12/17/2020 5:23:55 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: conservative98

I’ve been to the Caymans. Probably the only place on earth where you go to a bank and it’s a mix of cia spooks, terrorists, dirty politicians, communist dictators are all sitting down getting money from their Swiss style bank accounts...


13 posted on 12/17/2020 5:29:38 PM PST by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry )
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To: conservative98

How hard can it be to quarantine in the Caymans ferchrisake? Sounds like paradise.


14 posted on 12/17/2020 5:33:25 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: bigbob
An island judge issued the four-month term after overturning a previous sentence of 40 hours of community service and a $2,600 fine each, according to a report from the Cayman News Service. “This was as flagrant a breach as could be imagined,” Grand Court Justice Roger Chapple told the court, according to the Cayman Compass. “It was borne of selfishness and arrogance.”


Herr Roger Chapple, Nazi He Wolf of the SS British Cayman Islands

15 posted on 12/17/2020 5:44:39 PM PST by conservative98
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To: colorado tanker

You’re not out enjoying the island. You’re in a room somewhere for 2 weeks. Sounds like torture.


16 posted on 12/17/2020 5:50:34 PM PST by conservative98
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Well, she’ll be a guest of Her Majesty in an even smaller room for the next four months. She didn’t have to go to the Caymans, she chose to go. She knew the conditions for being allowed into the territory. She chose to violate them.


17 posted on 12/17/2020 7:20:11 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: max americana

Dude that’s a great starting premise for a spy thriller write that out.


18 posted on 12/17/2020 8:24:50 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Live Free or Die)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

But that still doesn’t make it right. The first judge said only a fine and community service so even the judges didn’t agree. I know one thing for sure I’m never going to the British Cayman islands. Too many islands where you don’t have to worry about getting locked up over a phony hoax.


19 posted on 12/17/2020 9:31:58 PM PST by conservative98
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