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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is assuring the public that it has made every effort to confirm that there are no Jamaican nationals that are of the Windrush generation or their descendants with legitimate claim to permanent residency or citizenship on the charter flight scheduled to arrive on Wednesday February 6th in Kingston, Jamaica.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith said, “We are aware of the personal impact and sensitivities in these circumstances, and therefore over the last months, the Ministry and PICA have worked quietly through the Jamaican High Commission in London to have the British authorities verify that the Charter would not include Windrush persons, and that all individuals removed would be persons who have exhausted all legal appeals and remedies”.

She advised that the British Home Office affirmed that it had done “robust research” and “thoroughly checked” the cases as they understood the importance of ensuring that persons subject to deportation were given every opportunity to appeal against their removal from the UK.

Minister Johnson Smith said that, “while the final decisions regarding persons who may be removed from foreign countries do not reside with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, our Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates continue to provide guidance to our nationals overseas who may require consular interventions in these circumstances.”

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