KINGSTON–The Por­tia Simp­son Miller-led ad­min­is­tra­tion has been threat­ened with a law­suit af­ter Ger­ald Per­reira, a Guyanese Mus­lim leader, was barred from en­ter­ing the coun­try to at­tend the 19th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of the Mil­lion-Man March.Per­reira said while on his way to Ja­maica on Fri­day to par­tic­i­pate in the cel­e­bra­tion, head­ed by Na­tion of Is­lam Leader Louis Far­rakhan, he was or­dered off a flight in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and told that Ja­maican au­thor­i­ties had re­fused him per­mis­sion to land.

Per­reira, who is the chair­man of the Black Con­scious­ness Move­ment Guyana (BCMG) says he plans to lodge a com­plaint with the Guyanese gov­ern­ment and will seek re­dress in the form of le­gal ac­tion against the Ja­maican gov­ern­ment.He added that be­ing barred from en­ter­ing Ja­maica is a breach of his right to free­dom of move­ment as a Cari­com na­tion­al.

Per­reira has al­so ac­cused the Unit­ed States of pres­sur­ing Ja­maica to pre­vent cer­tain per­sons from en­ter­ing for the 19th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of the Mil­lion Man March.He is the sec­ond Caribbean na­tion­al to have been de­nied en­try to Ja­maica for the event.Last week, Yasin Abu Bakr, leader of Ja­maat al Mus­limeen was al­so de­nied en­try in­to Ja­maica and de­port­ed back to T&T.

Bakr was re­fused leave to en­ter Ja­maica due to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.At a press con­fer­ence on Fri­day, Bakr said he in­tend­ed to take le­gal ac­tion and called on lo­cal au­thor­i­ties to in­ves­ti­gate his case.

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