Tag: Vanjae Ramgeet

COVID-positive traveller jailed for 4 months

COVID-positive traveller jailed for 4 months

| 22/02/2022 | 52 Comments

(CNS): A woman who boarded a Cayman Airways flight last year when she had symptoms and knew she had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 has been jailed. Stephany Clarke (28) from Jamaica was sentenced in Summary Court on Tuesday to four months following her conviction for breaching Cayman’s COVID-19 regulations.

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Appeal court supports jail for COVID breachers

Appeal court supports jail for COVID breachers

| 14/01/2021 | 38 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has backed the need to send isolation breachers to jail and stressed that it should “now be clear” to all that breaking COVID-19 regulations here will land you in prison. In written reasons on why the higher court reduced the four month prison sentence handed down by the […]

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Mack and Ramgeet release date set

Mack and Ramgeet release date set

| 07/01/2021 | 75 Comments

(CNS): The couple jailed last month after breaching COVID-19 isolation regulations will be released, as scheduled, on 15 January. Government officials confirmed Thursday that both Skylar Mack (18), a visitor from the state of Georgia, and Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet, a local Jet Ski competitor, will leave prison in just over one week, having served half […]

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VJ and Skylar remain in jail

VJ and Skylar remain in jail

| 04/01/2021 | 26 Comments

(CNS): Both Skylar Mack and Vanjae Ramgeet remain in jail, Prison Director Steve Barrett has confirmed to CNS. The governor’s office has also stated that they have not been released and no pardon has been given by that office. Expected to serve another three weeks in HMP Fairbanks and HMP Northward respectively, the notoriety of […]

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US senators enter fray over jailed Georgia teen

US senators enter fray over jailed Georgia teen

| 29/12/2020 | 174 Comments

(CNS): Skylar Mack was in the US news once again over the Christmas break after the two sitting senators from Georgia called for her release from jail in the Cayman Islands. Mack and her her Caymanian boyfriend, Vangae Ramgeet, are both serving a two-month prison sentence for breaching local COVID-19 isolation rules. Kelly Loeffler and […]

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Deportation of isolation breachers denied

Deportation of isolation breachers denied

| 24/12/2020 | 249 Comments

(CNS): Cayman Islands officials have denied claims by Dennis Mack, Skylar Mack’s father, that seven people were deported from the Cayman Islands for breaking COVID-19 isolation rules around the time his daughter was arrested, charged and then jailed for her breach. Responding to CNS inquiries, officials from Travel Cayman said the allegation was false.

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Skylar and VJ stay in jail but time halved

Skylar and VJ stay in jail but time halved

| 22/12/2020 | 287 Comments

(CNS) UPDATED WITH LAWYER’S STATEMENT: The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal handed down a reduced sentence on Tuesday, when they cut the jail time for Skylar Mack (18) and Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet (24), who were convicted for breaching quarantine regulations, from four months to two. The justices did not explain the reasons for the change, […]

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QC argues for first sentence in quarantine breach

QC argues for first sentence in quarantine breach

| 22/12/2020 | 81 Comments

(CNS): Ben Tonner QC opened arguments on behalf of Skylar Mack and Vanjae Ramgeet in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal on Tuesday, asking the panel of judges to re-instate the magistrate’s original community service order or a more appropriate sentence for the couple’s now infamous COVID-19 quarantine breach. Tonner said the judge who overturned […]

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Skylar and VJ now appealing jail time

Skylar and VJ now appealing jail time

| 17/12/2020 | 312 Comments

(CNS): Skylar Mack (18) and Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet (24) have applied to the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal after crown prosecutors successfully overturned a Summary Court sentence for their conviction for breaching COVID-19 quarantine rules and had the couple sent to jail. Defence attorney Jonathan Hughes from Samson Law told CNS that the president of […]

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Skylar and VJ jailed after appeal

Skylar and VJ jailed after appeal

| 15/12/2020 | 412 Comments

(CNS): Skylar Mack (18), who is a medical student in the US, and local competitive Jet Ski rider Vanjae “VJ” Ramgeet (24) have both been sent to jail for four months for breaching isolation rules. In court on Tuesday, Justice Roger Chapple overturned the community service handed to the couple by a magistrate last week, […]

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Jet Ski couple beg Cayman’s forgiveness

Jet Ski couple beg Cayman’s forgiveness

| 14/12/2020 | 120 Comments

(CNS): Skylar Mack and her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, who were convicted last week for breaching quarantine, have begged forgiveness for putting people at risk. Last month Mack broke the COVID-19 isolation rules with Ramgeet’s help, when she took off her iMsafe wristband just days after arriving here to attend the Jet Ski event in which […]

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