The telegraph
American student family who broke the quarantine in the Cayman Islands asks for his release from prison
A college student from the United States has been in prison in the Cayman Islands for four months after violating quarantine regulations by watching her boyfriend participate in a jet ski competition. Skylar Mack, 18, pleaded guilty to violating a 14-day isolation requirement for visitors to the British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. Jeanne Mack, her grandmother, said, “She knows she screwed up. She cries, she wants to go home.” She knows she made a mistake, she admits it, but she is very hysterical now. “Ms. Mack, a medical student at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, was with Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, her boyfriend, a resident of the Cayman Islands and a professional jet ski runner. The student said she had tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the US and after arriving in the Cayman Islands. As part of the quarantine restrictions, she received an electronic tracking device to monitor her movements. Two days after her stay, she abandoned him and went to see the jet ski competition, where she spent seven hours, police said, and she and Ramgeet pleaded guilty to violating quarantine requirements and were initially sentenced to 40 hours of community service and a $ 2,600 fine, however prosecutors appealed, arguing that the sentence did it was severe enough, and they were then arrested. Judge Roger Chapple said, “This was as blatant a violation as you could imagine. It was born out of selfishness and arrogance. “He added,” The severity of the violation was such that the only appropriate sentence would be immediate imprisonment. “The Cayman Islands had just over 300 cases of coronavirus and two deaths during the pandemic. It brought strict regulations to keep the level of cases low.