Guyanese woman challenges deportation

A Guyanese woman has filed a legal challenge against a decision by authorities in Antigua to deport her after she was pardoned.



Twenty-three year-old Rosaline Convay was sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison last year for stealing US$37,000 from a regional bank with branches in St John's.



In November, the Governor General granted Convay leniency on humanitarian grounds, as she had served jail time while pregnant.



Court papers have revealed that the Guyanese and her Antiguan boyfriend have filed an application in the High Court for a judicial review of the decision to deport her.



Immigration Minister Errol Cort told a local newspaper that a condition of her early release was that she would be returned to her country of birth.