CONSTITUTIONAL law expert Dr Lloyd Barnett has posed five questions he says the Jamaican Government must answer to satisfy the country about its decision to enter into a third-country national s(TCN) agreement with the United States.

Under the agreement, which the Jamaican Government has maintained was initiated by the United States (US), up to 25 asylum seekers who have unresolved migration cases will temporarily transit through Jamaica en route to their home countries every two weeks. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was supposedly inked amidst US efforts to manage regional structured migration. According to National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang, the people covered under the MOU are not being permanently settled in Jamaica and would only remain on the island while arrangements are made for their onward movement.

Dr Barnett, in a letter to the editor of the Jamaica Observer on Monday, said while government ministers have stated that Jamaica is assisting in the transit of the asylum seekers to their home country, citizens here should be told what countries are those home countries.