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“I can’t eat or sleep”: parents panic as UK rejects visa for 8-year-old Jamaican girl displaced by Hurricane Melissa

“I can’t eat or sleep”: parents panic as UK rejects visa for 8-year-old Jamaican girl displaced by Hurricane Melissa

The UK has denied an eight-year-old Jamaican girl, Lati-Yana Stephanie Brown, a visa to join her parents, despite being left homeless by Hurricane Melissa. Lati-Yana’s mother, Kerrian Bigby, a carer, and her British father, Jerome Hardy, a telecommunications worker, moved from Jamaica to the UK in April 2023. Kerrian left their daughter in the care…

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