Barbados has added more names to a list of terrorists and terrorist organisations on a UN watchlist while delisting another grouping.
Three advertisements in yesterday’s paper alerted Barbadians to the changes in keeping with the country’s international obligation with the United Nations Security Council Committee which has identified the people as terrorists or an “entity or group associated with, or affiliated to terrorists or acts of terrorism”.
The publishing of the names is also in keeping with the legal requirements.
On Pages 28 and 29 of yesterday’s Saturday Sun the advertisements highlighted the orders given on March 13 and 27 by Chief Justice The Most Honourable Leslie Haynes and on April 2 by Acting Chief Justice Francis Belle.
Haynes varied the court order given in November 2019 against Al-Nusrah Front For the People of the Levant by deleting the designation terrorist or terrorist entity previously associated with it. The delisting means the organisation would no longer be subject to an asset freeze of any property wholly or jointly owned or controlled by it.
On the other hand, Sami, Jasim, MuhammadJaata; Al-Jaburi aka Mustafa Adnan Al-Aziz, Mustafa Adnan al-Azeez, Sami al-Ajuz and Hijji Hamid and others were declared terrorists which would lead to the freezing of associated assets should the group come into contact with Barbados.
A copy of the order is to be served immediately on the Financial Intelligence Unit, while the court “dispense with the requirement for service on the defendants” of the two orders. ( AC)
