Tim McKinney, a visiting doctor, and his wife Amy Baxter, arrived in Grenada on 1 November 2020, and were approved for home quarantine.
They failed to adhere to the protocols for home quarantine, as per Ministry of Health Protocols and were arrested and charged.
They appeared at the St George’s Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, 25 November 2020 and were fined $5,000 each, to be paid forthwith. The fines were paid and they were subsequently released.
RGPF
I read with interest the comments of the outcome of the McKinney and Baxter case and I am horrified!! Although the comments are very few, they reflect us as a society.
My WhatsApp pages are filled with forwarded messages of God’s love and Grace for me ….and they do more, I am asked to continue to forward such messages on to others.
We Grenadians are well equipped with the tools of bitterness, revenge, arrogance and ignorance and we are equally bankrupt in empathy, forgiveness and kindness. They have broken the law and have rightly paid the price. Why and what should deportation and imprisonment have to do with maintaining a covid free Grenada. The people who were meant to oversee the management of passengers should also pay a large penalty for their gross incompetence.. Instead the lack of adequate training allows staff to exercise unnecessary leniency to some members of the public while displaying rudeness, severity and unreasonable tactics in their approach to others. The system cries out for GOOD GOVERNANCE not ridicule of poor judgement.and/or inadequate information.
Sincerely,
Princess
Very well said. At first I thought they should be punished a lot more severely but maybe they should have been made do some community service as well. The authorities who were responsible should also be taught better after all what happened could have caused people to lose their lives.
You have your opinion and others are saying how they feel..they are doctors and should have known better. They showed no respect for us.They came from America where COVID-19 has killed 260,000 persons.. They could have given a lot of people this disease so people have a right to be upset. It’s all talk I don’t think anyone will.do physical harm to them
They should be banned from the island !!
Should have charged them $10,000 each. They are suppose to be well educated foreign doctors. Can’t have these people going around as a risk to others. They deserve a nice vacation up in richmond hill.
Persons who willing interacted with them knowing that they should have been in quarantine, should have also been given a fine too.
This fine is not enough..they should have gone to jail.
Be grateful that they were actually charged and fined as they should have been. Maybe they should have finished their quarantine in Richmond Hill as a lesson. True, they should have also paid compensation to those who lost their wages as a result and all the cost to the country as well.
Not enough payment . If the bar is raised to $15,000. And is seriously implemented .A lot more persons will be a lot more mindful about the actions and attitudes. Live positive and lets be less self centred,/ selfish and self consumed. Blesssings.
They should have also been made to pay for all the tests that had to be done on those they came into contact with and paid the wages of those who had to take time off work to isolate. They got off very lightly indeed considering how completely selfish and irresponsible they were!
This is disgustingly irresponsible and selfish behaviour. Doctor of what, I wonder? He should be struck off. 5000 dollars is absolutely nothing to them!
This one obviously took the Hypocritic oath…
Rightly so, no one is above the Law.