Jamaican-born UK citizen detained in Trinidad over Caribbean Airlines mix-up BY JEDIAEL CARTER—    Dudley Smith says he was arrested, charged, detained and tried in Trinidad & Tobago because he refused to vacate his seat on a Caribbean Airlines flight.— When Dudley Smith boarded his Caribbean Airlines flight to Barbados at the Norman Manley International Airport on August 26 he never dreamed that it would lead to his first arrest and detention. He told the Jamaica Observer that he was wrongly arrested and charged for disruptive behaviour on the flight after he refused to relinquish his seat which appeared to have been mistakenly assigned to another passenger. Smith said that the night before his flight he used the airline’ Web check-in feature and selected seat 11F. Immediately after, he said he received a confirmation e-mail with … Read entire article »