Gov’t says Marks was involved in bid ‘to attract skilled workers to Jamaica’, not deportee proposal
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June 18, 2026
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Government is insisting that the United States initiated a controversial deportee deal, arguing that an American diplomatic note mischaracterised a separate effort involving Cabinet Minister Audrey Marks to “attract skilled workers to Jamaica”.
"It is a US initiative. So, the US would have come to us on that Third Country Nationals programme," Morris Dixon told JIS, the government news agency in an interview on Wednesday.
Her comments come amid questions over a diplomatic note from the United States Embassy in Kingston, obtained by The Gleaner, which stated that Marks made the proposal “for a Third-Country National arrangement that would have Jamaica receive up to 10,000 third-country nationals from the United States”.
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