British reality TV star Zara Holland was Wednesday morning fined $12,000 for breaching coronavirus quarantine when she appeared at the District “D” Magistrates Court.
Holland pleaded guilty to breaching COVID-19 Directive No.4 by leaving Sugar Bay Hotel where she was staying pending the results of her COVID-19 test without a reasonable explanation.
Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes ordered her to pay the fine in seven days. If Holland fails to pay the fine, she will spend the next nine months in prison.
Holland, 26, is currently out on $20,000 bail with a surety to guarantee that the fine is paid.
The former Love Island star was stopped at the Grantley Adams International Airport on December 29 attempting to skip the island before her test results came through.
Her lead attorney Andrew Pilgrim QC said Holland had received two negative COVID-19 tests and accepts that her attempts to leave the country was “foolish.”
He added that she accepted “full responsibility” for her error.
Chief Magistrate Weekes also declared in court that contrary to public opinion the “court does not just jail anyone” but always does a means assessment as to whether a convicted person can pay a fine in relation to such charges.
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Not enough
Way too lenient. She will sell her “story” to the gutter press in the UK for far more than $12 000
She should have been fined 50,000 bb$ and 6 months in prison.
12,000 bb$ for her is nothing.
The rich pay a fine Ann the poor go to jail smh
Meanwhile a Jamaican man without means to pay $12000 will languish in prison for 6 months.
Equity under law please.
12 thousand dollars? That’s it for putting so many lives at risk and the poor Jamaican guy got six months. Clorox justice.
So a Jamaican man pops out to get a soft drink, he is jailed. A celebrity cuts off her wrist band, gets in a taxi goes to the airport mixes with who knows how many people. The police find her there attempting to fly out. And she of ample means is fined. If she had been Jamaican im sure even after saying sorry, she would have been jailed. Is it a case of …we must not upset the white visitors ? Total double standards.
Magistrate Ian WEEKES is a COWARD,UNCLE TOM AND A DISGRACE.
HOW CAN HE LOOT HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR.
THIS PALTRY FINE FOR (ZARA)
THE WRECKLESS,
SELFISH AND DISGUSTING ENGLISH WHITE
GIRL PROVE WHAT WE IN BARBADOS
HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN.
BaRBADOS IS THE HOME OF APARTHIED.
ONE LAW FOR THE WHITE OFFENDER AND ANOTHER
DISGUSTING SEVERER LAW WITH
CUSTODIAL SENTENCE GUARANTEED FOR
BLACKS.
ONLY BLACKS SEE THE INSIDES OF PRISON HERE…..
WHITES NEVER.
AS FOR OUR BLACK
(SO-CALLED BLACK
GOVERNMENT?
WE YET AGAIN SEE THEM FOR THE HYPOCRITES THEY
REALLY ARE.
ALL THIS NONSENSE
ABOUT EMANCIPATE
YOURSELF FROM MENTAL SLAVERY…..
WHAT A SICK JOKE.
WE KNOW BRITAIN ..
ALONG WITH COLONIAL,..LEFT BEHINDERS…that
Well tiny percentage
RICH AND DON’T CARE FOR THE BLACKS BRIGADE……
THEY HAVE ALWAYS
AND STZiL DOES RUN THINGS.
IT IS A SHAME AND NOTHING SHIRT OF A NATIONAL SCANDAL.
A JAMAICAN WHOSE
DID NOT HALF OF WHAT “WHITE PRIVILEGED ZARA“
DID WAS GIVEN A PRISON SENTENCE BY A LUNATIC MAGISTRATE WHO DISLIKE BEING BLACK AND / OR IS CERTIFIED ANTI- JAMAICAN.
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER WORLDWIDE SHOULD PUBLICISE TO SERIOUSLY PROBLEMS OF RACE lNFERIORITY COMPLEX IN BARBADOS .THAT DEMEAN AND TOTALLY DISRESPECT OUR BLACK AFRICA DESCENDANTS OF THE DIASPORA.
AS FOR THIS BAJAN
MAGISTRATE HE SHOULD BE HAULED OFF THE BENCH AND IMPRISONED …
FORCED TO READ
BOOKS SUCH AS:
BLACK JACKOBINS
BEYOND THE
BOUNDARY
HIDDEN FIGURES
SUPER MAN TO MAN
SLAVES WHO ABOLISHED SLAVERY
AND THAT BOOK PROFESSOR BECKLES
ABOUT HOW THE BRITISH HE SO FAVOUR AND SUCK UP TO SHAMEFULlY
BY GIVING THEM A SLAP ON THE WRIST
LIGHT SENTENCE….
BARBAROUSLY ENSLAVED BAJAN BLACKS,GENOCIDE,RAPE,TORTURED AND
SODOMISED OUR TERROR STRICKEN
MEN,WOMEN AND
CHILDREN USING THEIR PSYCHOPATHIC,
DEMONIC, DEVIL LED BARBADOS SLAVE CODE LAWS.
THIA BECAME THE
WORSE INHUMAN CRIME AGAINST MANKIND SINCE CHRIST CRUCIFIXION.
I SUGGEST OUR MAD BAJAN MAGISTRATE STAY IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT UNTIL HE LEARN HIS BLACK HISTORY AND HOW TO BE FAIR AND JUST.
UNTIL HE IS EMANCIPATED FROM HIS SELF CHOSEN MENTAL SLAVERY.
NEVER AGAIN TO BE PREJUDICED AGAINST HIS OWN BLACK BRETHREN ..,.FOR THE SAKE OF HIS BABYLONIAN
PAY AND SLAVE MASTERS.