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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Good Samaritan flies pregnant Antiguan home

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Radhica De SIlva
1852 days ago
20200626
Sheniequa Lewis.

Sheniequa Lewis.

RISHI RAGOONATH

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Preg­nant stu­dent She­niequa Lewis is now safe in quar­an­tine in her home­land of An­tigua, days af­ter Guardian Me­dia high­light­ed her strug­gles to re­turn home.

Ear­ly yes­ter­day, Lewis board­ed a flight the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty or­gan­ised for her to leave on af­ter she was grant­ed her per­mis­sion to leave the coun­try. The pri­vate flight was al­ready set to de­part T&T with a Trinida­di­an na­tion­al Lewis is call­ing her Good Samar­i­tan, but the min­istry col­lab­o­rat­ed with him to take her on the flight and drop her off in her home­land.

In a What­sapp mes­sage, Lewis said, “I am back home in An­tigua and I am hap­py to be home. I am present­ly in quar­an­tine but glad to be home where I have ac­cess to my ther­a­py and where I can now fo­cus on hav­ing a safe de­liv­ery.”

She ex­tend­ed grat­i­tude to dozens of Trinida­di­ans who reached out to her, some of whom of­fered her mon­ey to char­ter a flight for her safe re­turn home. Lewis told Guardian Me­dia she did not have to pay for her trip as it was all arranged by the Good Samar­i­tan, whom she did not name.

“I would like to thank the many cit­i­zens of T&T that reached out to as­sist me in my time of need and every­one that had a part to play in my re­turn home. We didn’t ac­cept any mon­e­tary do­na­tions be­cause we were not sure of the way for­ward but I want to thank the guy that ac­com­mo­dat­ed me on his flight, even though I am not sure whether I should pub­licly state his name,” she said.

“I al­so want to thank the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, who grant­ed me ap­proval and who made a way for me to get a lift home.”

Lewis was un­able to take her per­son­al be­long­ings but said she will make arrange­ments to have them shipped to her in due course.

Lewis had been in Trinidad study­ing at the T&T Tourism and Hos­pi­tal­i­ty In­sti­tute since Sep­tem­ber 2019. When she went back home on va­ca­tion she got preg­nant. De­ter­mined to fin­ish her course she re­turned to Trinidad but her class­es were sus­pend­ed be­cause of low stu­dent turnout. She booked a flight to re­turn home on March 30 but on March 22 the bor­ders were closed, leav­ing her strand­ed.

Lewis suf­fers from sco­l­io­sis, which is a cur­va­ture of her spine and she has been in ex­treme pain dur­ing her preg­nan­cy. She was un­able to get ther­a­py in Trinidad and was des­per­ate to re­turn home to have her ba­by, who is due in Sep­tem­ber.

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