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TexasTowelie

(112,445 posts)
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 06:24 AM Dec 2020

Georgia college student jailed in Cayman Islands for violating its COVID-19-related restrictions

A Mercer University student from Loganville and her boyfriend are facing four months in a Cayman Islands prison for violating public health rules put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cayman News Service reported Skylar Mack, 18, and competitive Jet Ski rider, and Cayman Islands native, Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet, 24, were initially sentenced by a magistrate judge to serve 40 hours of community service.

Officials in the Cayman Islands government appealed that sentence, which resulted in another judge, from the island nation's Grand Court, overturning it and sentencing the pair to spend four months in prison.

The Cayman News Service described Mack as being a "medical student in the U.S." The incident which landed her and her boyfriend in prison reportedly stems from her attendance at a jet ski competition that Ramgeet was participating in.

Read more: https://www.albanyherald.com/news/georgia-college-student-jailed-in-cayman-islands-for-violating-its-covid-19-related-restrictions/article_c421dcf1-4353-511c-869e-ed3668788834.html

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Georgia college student jailed in Cayman Islands for violating its COVID-19-related restrictions (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2020 OP
Entitled morans jpak Dec 2020 #1
Maybe they missed the word "global" in "global pandemic"? flor-de-jasmim Dec 2020 #2
She's American so not used to Covid laws with teeth in them Blues Heron Dec 2020 #3

Blues Heron

(5,944 posts)
3. She's American so not used to Covid laws with teeth in them
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 09:42 AM
Dec 2020

not every country is as idiotically spreader-friendly as the US of A

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