By Michael Spence
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| Michael Spence |
People are making money off the TCN programme like a human trafficking business. There are brokers, I am sure, handling the unquantifiable and untraceable people and cash.
I am sure the brokers are paid US$30,000 - US$60,000 or more per person. In Jamaica, a prisoner/person in detention costs about US$15,000 per annum. That is straight good business if we are paid twice that for temporary TCN accommodation. Call it what it is: The TCN Tourism Product.
Potential earnings are considerably more than the 20-40 cents per dollar from the traditional plantation-style tourism product. TCN could be at least 80 cents on the dollar. The best tourism product earnings on the planet. So go for it; don't criticize it.
Other countries are paid within that band. El Salvador is paid about US$30,000. US$60,000 is the median detention cost per year per person in the USA, going as high as US$170,000 in some states.
USA has approximately 2 million humans in detention/prison, the highest in the world. TCN is a cost-saving transaction for the USA. Go ahead and build some TCN dormitories/hotels. Look at the UWI minimum-security model to have an idea.
Regarding Cubans and Haitians, there is no money to be made there. They as refugees, are sadly being returned almost immediately. By the way, who are the brokers handling the money and how much are they getting?
Who are the Jamaicans, in government or otherwise, benefitting from the TCN business strategy? No problem, go for the TCN business strategy — but how much is Jamaica getting from it?
Jamaica needs all the foreign exchange earnings possible from legal operations. That should be no secret, and let us all participate and support it as a people's tourism product.
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How much is Jamaica getting for these TCN and where is the money? Is it going towards the budget? WHERE IS THE MONEY FOR THIS FIRST Set of tcn?
ReplyDeleteFunds earned by the government go to the consolidated fund. Check with Foreign Affairs, and they can tell you more about the earnings from this.
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