National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang told Parliament on Wednesday that the controversial deal to temporarily accommodate non-Jamaican deportees from the United States originated from a request by Washington. Chang's account of the deal's origins, however, sits in tension with revelations in a diplomatic note sent to Jamaica by the United States Embassy in Kingston, and reported on in The Gleaner on Thursday.

Kingston and Washington are expected to begin talks on an agreement first pitched by a senior Jamaican government official that could see the island accepting up to 10,000…

The Dr Andrew Holness administration is facing pressure to justify Jamaica’s involvement in a controversial United States (US) deportee arrangement as political analysts raise…