Saturday, October 18, 2014 | 5:14 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party has accused the Government of having “a distorted sense of priorities” in criticising the recent deportation of Jamaat Al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr of Trinidad.
“We probably will never know the intelligence which guided the decision to return Yasin Abu Bakr to Trinidad without delay. Mr Abu Bakr must have been a very great threat to Jamaica‘s national security, greater than chikungunya and apparently much greater than Ebola,” said Leader of the Opposition Andrew Holness.
“Was Mr Abu Bakr so great a threat that the Government felt it more important to spend J$4 million to hire a private jet to get him out of the country immediately than to use that money for a far more clear and present danger?” he questioned.
Holness added that the money expended could easily augment Jamaica’s preparedness efforts to deal with the real and more important threat of Ebola, and that the Government doesn’t seem to have considered this alternative way to spend it.?
Abu Bakr was detained at the Norman Manley International Airport Wednesday afternoon and returned to Trinidad and Tobago on a private jet Thursday morning after he refused to fly economy class on a commercial flight.
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