Popular Jamaican Dancehall entertainer, Moses “Beenie Man” Davis has asked immigration officials in Barbados to stop pressuring Jamaicans. This warning is the latest in an ongoing spat between the two Caribbean islands since the highly publicized sexual abuse case involving 20-year-old Shanique Myrie at a Barbados airport last month.
Myrie said that she was subjected to an intense cavity search by a female immigration officer when arriving in Barbados on March 14. Davis, while performing a show at the Reggae Beach Party in Brandons Beach, St Michael in Barbados made his feelings known about the mistreatment of Jamaicans in the island. “Ease up Jamaican. Stop pressure Jamaican,” he pleaded.
Davis suggests that several of his friends have experienced similar issues on their arrivals in Barbados. "Sometime you get fed up ah one ting, yuh know. Cause you have been all over de world and den sometime you doan really need to come to Barbados. The immigration need to think twice. I have friends who come over here and end up in jail fi four days fi no reason," he explained. Furthermore, Beenie himself had been arrested on his last trip to Barbados. Despite those gripes, the legendary Dancehall artist insisted that he harbor no bad feelings towards the island as a whole.
"Vibes nice and de people dem enjoy demself and me like that. Thank you Barbados," he stated as he closed the show. The Myrie case is still ongoing, as she has been invited by Barbadian Prime Minister, Freundel Stuart to return to the island to identify her abuser.
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