Chad Bryan, Staff Reporter
The leader of the Trinidadian Muslim group Jamaat Al Muslimeen, Yasin Abu Bakr, has been denied entry into Jamaica.
News reports out of Trinidad say Abu Bakr reportedly travelled to Kingston earlier yesterday on a Caribbean Airlines Flight but was not allowed to leave the airport.
An airport official said Abu Bakr became boisterous after he was refused entry.
He is to be escorted back to Trinidad and Tobago.
A press release from the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) confirmed that Bakr was denied entry. It said Bakr was refused leave to land under section 4 (1) h of the Immigration Restriction Act, which states:
The following Commonwealth citizens (not being persons deemed to belong to the Island as defined by sub section (2) of section 2) are prohibited immigrants - (h) any person who, from information or advice which in the opinion of the Minister is reliable information or advice, is deemed by the Minister to be an undesirable inhabitant of or visitor to the island.
The decision to refuse leave to land is in the interest of national security, given the present threat posed to public safety, the press release stated.
His denial comes on the heels of the Islamic Million Man March to be held at the National Arena on October 19.
In July 1990, Jamaat Aal Muslimeen stormed Parliament in an attempted coup and took the prime minister and his Cabinet hostage.
The coup attempt by Yasin Abu Bakr and 113 members of his Jamaat al Muslimeen group resulted in the deaths of 24 people, most during looting that erupted in the capital of Port-of-Spain.
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