Does Eunice Morris, owner of Morris Travel Agency, as she was known in Grand Bahama still exist?
Reports coming out of the Turks and Caicos Islands, where she has been tracked down, is that her name has allegedly been changed.
But according to official records in Turks and Caicos she has reportedly registered to vote for the upcoming elections as Eunece Morris.
Being the offspring to Turks and Caicos parents she is also a “Belonger” or citizen of that country.
Just this week the family members who were allegedly duped by Morris said, they spoke with the police and were told that they have reached out to the police in that country but were refused.
The Freeport News did some further investigations to discover that because Morris is a Belonger, she cannot be extradited.
Advice for the family and courts here was that they need to take their case to Turks &?Caicos to eventually be granted the extradition if she is found guilty.
Just under a year ago, Morris the former owner of Myrtle House, trading as Morris Travel Agency was deemed wanted by the police for stealing by reason of service.
The 48-year-old businesswoman was wanted for fraud here in Grand Bahama. It was noted that during the month of July, 2011, several complaints were made against Morris, who police said collected funds in the amount of some $60,000.00, payment for a vacation cruise for three large groups.
It was discovered that the funds were never paid to the cruiseline on their behalf.
In mid July 2012, the Edden family of Smith’s Point, went through what they described as a “vacation from hell” after using the Morris Travel Agency for this trip.
Some family members were left stuck in Miami because reservations were not made for the entire group. Those who did go on the cruise went through even more hardship when the cruise line discovered that the credit card used to book their cruise was fraudulent. The group was almost arrested for fraud.
Immediately upon their arrival back home to Freeport, the family filed a complaint to the police station and retained the services of a lawyer to try and recoup their funds for the cruise.
Managing Director for the travel agency, Eunice (Eunece) Morris, in an interview with The Freeport News said that there was a mix-up with the funds getting to Carnival on time and she promised to “make things right” for the family.
However, according to reports, the family has not heard from Morris since returning to Freeport.
Further, another group of proposed vacationers were also placed in the same position and took their matter to the police having also used the Morris’ Agency.
It was noted during further investigation into this case that in December 2007 The Freeport News carried a story with a picture of the Travel Agent with this story:
Two days ago, Kathy Nixon claimed that she too was a victim of a cruise vacation gone bad in 2007, which was handled by Morris’ Travel Agency. She took her matter to court and the Agency was ordered to reimburse Nixon, who revealed that it was not until December 2010 that she received her repayment from Morris.
However, while the Edden family was feeling the effects of being wronged another group reportedly filed their complaint with the police about their trip that was pending at the time.
This group was from a local primary school, where some 20-plus persons maintained that they have already paid for their cruise which was to set for August 13.
The police began circulating a wanted poster with Morris’ picture stating that she is wanted by the Central Detective Unit for Stealing by Reason of Service in November, but without success at first.
This was not her first time being taken to court for such matters and on both accounts she was given time to repay.
The last one she finished repaying in December according to her accuser.
Interestingly enough, all previous stories about these matters are no longer found on Google search engine. Morris’ Facebook account had been closed for a month, but now is back up.
The Edden family is being represented by attorney Jacy Whittaker.
Source: Yasmin Popescu
The Freeport News
