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‘I can’t dictate US policy’

July 02, 2026 | News
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.
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