It could be considered the most expensive vacation beer that Ben Graham Fergusson has ever bought.
And there is no guarantee that he will be allowed back into Barbados to enjoy another Banks beer.
Yesterday, the Scottish visitor was released from prison after he finally paid his $8 000 fine for twice breaking quarantine to buy beer.
It was on Saturday that Fergusson, 29, who was in quarantine at the Bougainvillea Hotel, appeared in court where he pleaded guilty to the charge that in contravention of Paragraph 10 of the Emergency Management COVID-19 Protocols Special Curfew No. 2 Directive 2021, in that there being a directive requiring every person to observe such social distancing and associated protocols in the interest of public health imposed from January 6 to 31, being a person placed in quarantine at the hotel, he failed to obey the directive of the Chief Medical Officer on January 14 and again on January 15. (HLE)
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