Prime Minister Gaston Browne says arrangements being made to get Antiguan students out of Jamaica

ST JOHN’S, Antigua & Barbuda, April 18, 2020, (Antigua News Room) Prime Minister Gaston Browne says the government is responding to the concerns of Antigua & Barbuda students studying in Jamaica.

A number of students, mainly at the University of the West Indies Mona, remain in Jamaica as ports both in Jamaica and Antigua & Barbuda have been closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The students have said they are running out of food and money given banking restrictions and restrictions using money transfers. It is also their preference to be in Antigua & Barbuda with their families as classes can now be done online.

Prime Minister Browne says Ambassador Gilbert “Boustany has responded to their immediate need and will be seeking assistance from one of our mutual friends, to fly them to Antigua on his private jet.”

“We will do all in power to bring relief to them,” Browne added in a Facebook post.

Most of Jamaica is under a partial curfew. The country has recorded 163 cases of the coronavirus raising fears that there could be an island-wide lock-down anytime soon.