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Bert Samuels. Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels is seeking immediate answers into whether four Jamaicans arrested at sea by the United States Coast Guard were “kidnapped” under the veil of the Shiprider Agreement two months ago. His query has to do with the recent demolition at sea of the Jamaican-registered vessel Lady Lawla and the taking into custody of its four-man Jamaican crew, who are yet to be repatriated even after a judge in the Southern District Court of Florida ruled that their detention be terminated. The men, Anthony Clark (captain), Radcliffe Simmons, Howard Patterson and Warre...

Barbara Gayle/Gleaner Contributor Deported Jamaican, Richard ‘Storyteller’ Morrison, is fed up with the long delay by the court to conclude his negligence case against the Jamaican government for wrongful extradition. Morrison, a building contractor, says he does not know what else to do but to bring his plight to the attention of the Appeal Court. "All I know for sure is that this has been an extraordinary persecution not prosecution for an ordinary man," he told The Gleaner. Morrison said shortly before midday Monday, he went to the Court of Appeal to file documents requesting that...