ST JAMES, Jamaica — Opposition Leader Mark Golding is urging the government to come clean about reports that Jamaica and the US are mulling an agreement which would see foreign nationals who have run afoul of the law in America temporarily held in Jamaica until they are transferred to their country of birth.

“I don’t like the way that this has come to light, through a leak to a media house. Why isn’t the government levelling with the people about what is going on?” Golding told the Jamaica Observer on the sidelines of the 11th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference now on at the Montego Bay Convention Centre.

“Many people are going to have major misgivings about something which involves non-Jamaicans being brought here,” he added.