Bahamian government ordered to pay Jamaican millions in damages

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A High Court has ordered Bahamian authorities to pay two million US dollars to a 36-year-old Jamaican who had been wrongfully held on remand in prison for nearly 10 years.

The Court heard that Matthew Sewell, who was 18 years old when he arrived in The Bahamas in June 2006 to visit his father, was arrested days after his arrival on a charge of raping a minor.

He spent two years on remand until he was given bail in May 2008. But he was arrested again in...