Suriname police say a 16-year-old boy from Jamaica was refused passage through that country on Saturday after immigrations officers suspected that he was traveling to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) through Turkey.
The Suriname police said the teenager arrived at the Johan Adolf Pengel Airport on a flight from Jamaica, intending to transit to the Netherlands, from where he would travel to Turkey.
However, they say after receiving information from a regional intelligence service that the teen was intending to join ISIS, he was denied access to Suriname and returned to Jamaica.
The teenager’s name was not given.
This comes just weeks after local authorities said there was no information of any Jamaican being involved with ISIS.
This followed a warning from Commander of the US Southern Command, General John Kelly.
He said about 100 nationals from several countries in the Caribbean and South America, including Jamaica, have joined ISIS and were returning to the region from where they could pose a threat to the US.
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