Minister of Foreign Affairs Kerrie Symmonds has dismissed a WhatsApp message claiming Barbados agreed to accept asylum seekers deported from the United States.
The message, which has been making the rounds on social media platforms, alleged that the United States concluded “intense pressure-laden negotiations” with seven CARICOM member states – Guyana, Dominica,
St Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, St Kitts and Nevis, and Barbados – to receive asylum seekers unable to return to their countries of origin.
Symmonds said the claim had no basis in fact.
“I too have seen the WhatsApp being circulated and I want to give the assurance that nothing could be further from the truth. It is fake news,” he said.
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