Foreign Ministry to tighten up on remigration scheme

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett says that her ministry is looking at ways to reduce the abuse of the remigrant programme but noted that this may require legislative steps.

The minister yesterday held an end-of-year press conference in which she highlighted the developments in her ministry for 2014 and the projects that are on stream for 2015.

She said that for this year remigrant status was accorded to 289 persons in comparison with 306 for the