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Administrative director of the non-profit organisation, HaitiChildren, Sheryl Ritchie, says none of the caregivers who arrived in Jamaica with the group of orphans from Haiti in March have fled the Mustard Seed facility in Moneague, St. Ann.
Her assertion follows reports on Wednesday that several of the caregivers had been unaccounted for.
But in an interview Thursday morning, Mustard Seed maintains that the caregivers have not returned.
Mahiri Stewart has our story.
Executive director of Mustard Seed Communities Jamaica, Darcy Tulloch Williams, told Nationwide at Five on Wednesday that the Haitians left the Jacob’s Ladder facility in St. Ann with their belongings.
Consultant for Development at Mustard Seed Communities, David Silvera says the matter was reported to the Passport Immigration and Citizenship Agency, PICA.
It’s not known who picked up the caregivers. The caregivers are reportedly mostly males in their twenties and thirties.
However, Ms. Ritchie told Nationwide News that the caregivers have not fled. She says the caregivers are working on what she described as a week-on, week-off shift rotation.
According to Ms. Ritchie, it was those listed on the second shift who went off-site with permission. She claims they’ve also returned for their shifts and are currently on the Jacob’s Ladder compound.
The HaitiChildren’s administrative director says it was one of the nurses who left the facility with the group members, but they’re all back at the location and working.
She reasoned that it seemed Mustard Seed and one of its nurses had started drafting up a separate shift schedule which contradicted rotation usually written by the Haitian caregivers.
But in an interview with our news centre Thursday morning, Mustard Seed says the caregivers have not returned. Mustard Seed clarifies that it is nine and not ten caregivers who have not returned to the Moneague-based facility.
According to Mustard Seed, the caregivers have now been gone for about eleven or twelve days.
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