Did Jamaica have a choice in US deportees matter?
By Andrew Clunis
Every day, governments are faced with making tough decisions, some of which may have dire political consequences.
Controversies break administrations and there is none more so than the issue at hand, that of the pending memorandum of operation between Jamaica and the United States which will see the Jamaica being used as a transit point for deportees from America.
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