US revokes visa of Belizean jurist

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the fatal MV Barima disaster in Guyana, Justice Godfrey Smith, says that while social media “is crazy with speculations” regarding the decision of the United States to revoke his visa, he is urging Washington to reveal the reasons “freely”.

Smith, a Belizean jurist, who is also the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) High-Level Representative on Law and Criminal Justice, as well as an ad hoc Justice of Appeal in the Eastern Caribbean, said that no reason had been given to him regarding the decision to revoke his US visa.

Smith, who is the chairman of the University of Belize board of directors, said the email sent to him from the US Embassy consular section indicated only that the visa had been revoked.