Committee: OAS
Topic: Rights of Migrant workers
Country: Jamaica
Delegate: Danielle Lorrain

During the 1800s Jamaica had Immigrants came into Jamaica to help with the sugar cane industry. Then Jamaica hit hard times and the economy has gone down since then. So a lot of Jamaicans got to the the UK and the US for jobs since the only ways to make money in Jamaica is tourism an drug dealing. Between people coming and leaving they lose 100,000 people a year.
Jamaica does not like what they call the “Brain drain” which is most of the doctors and teachers leaving the teachers. They want countries like the US and the UK to pay for a half of the coast of training them because Jamaica doesn’t get any benefits for training them. Jamaica has ratified the Migrant Workers Convention as of September 25, 2008. Jamaica wants countries to follow workers comp with Jamaicans that come over on work programs instead of just sending them back when they get hurt keep them there and pay for injuries and missed work. Jamaica can help with any other country that ratified the Migrant Workers Convention.


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