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‘I can’t dictate US policy’

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Sashana SmallJournalist at Jamaica Gleaner

July 2, 2026

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‘I can’t dictate US policy’

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Cabinet Minister Audrey Marks has denied proposing the controversial deal under which Jamaica would receive up to 10,000 third-country nationals (TCNs) from the United States (US).

Marks said media reports have conflated the TCN Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a separate proposal she developed in March last year as Jamaica’s Ambassador to Washington to recruit skilled foreign workers.

Speaking yesterday at the National Corporate Consultation on Workforce Alignment and Jamaica’s Economic Competitiveness, at the Institute for Workforce Education and Development (IWED) Corporate Consultation, Marks also suggested that the furore was intended to damage her reputation.

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