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Barbados trafficking in persons case…Women allegedly offered money to implicate accused

May 27, 2013 News

 

 

Three Guyanese women who once worked with two Barbadian nationals ensnared in a Trafficking In Persons probe have claimed that they have been receiving numerous calls from persons offering to pay them to give statements against the accused.
Kaieteur News was told that the ladies have been receiving calls from different persons who are in Barbados. One of the women told Kaieteur News that she was at work some two weeks ago when she received the first call. The woman explained that the male voice on the other end of the call asked if she had known the male and female accused.
The woman claimed that after confirming that she knew the two Barbadian nationals, the caller offered her some Bds $2000 to say that she was trafficked by the two persons and she had escaped.  The woman said she was somewhat dumbfounded by the call. She said that she started questioning the person about the motive behind the call.
“I told him point blank I don’t want any money because I can’t lie on two persons who did nothing to me” the woman told Kaieteur News.
The second woman told Kaieteur News that she received a call last week from a man who said he was in Barbados.
“I saw the country code…246 so I knew it was a overseas call” the woman told Kaieteur News.  According to the woman, she too was offered Bds $2000 to say that she had escaped from the Barbadians.
Meanwhile, relatives of a 17 year old Guyanese girl, who was allegedly a victim of human trafficking in Barbados, said that the teen was hospitalized recently. According to relatives the teen has called on numerous occasions claiming that she and other victims were not being properly fed and that their living conditions are atrocious.
The teen has expressed to her relatives that she would like to return to her homeland. Relatives have since hired a Barbados-based Attorney to represent the alleged victim, who is said to be four months pregnant.
Further, this newspaper was told that the teen is alleging that they are being offered money to give particular statements against the two accused.
Days after five Guyanese women alleged that they were trafficked in Barbados, relatives of the alleged victims in Guyana claimed that the girls were lying. According to relatives, all of the alleged victims were in contact with them regularly and no one said that they were being held against their will.
The aunt of one 19-year-old ‘victim’ had stated that her niece had made the same allegations against orphanage directors where she grew up.
The aunt of another 19-year-old stated that her niece made similar allegations last year against another aunt. The woman told Kaieteur News that her niece has implicated three persons who have no knowledge about “trafficking her”.
The aunt also told Kaieteur News that her niece was in Barbados for over six months. The woman said that her niece would call, text and send money to her from Barbados. “She used to call her family, send money and everything…She never one day said anybody was keeping her against her will.”
The five women were caught in bathing suits in Nelson Street, after a raid led by the police new Sex Crimes and Trafficking Unit.

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