It was an unusual welcome for Jamaicans who returned home on the evening of June 28, as families and friends waited at the arrival gates of the Norman Manley International Airport.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is the ‘miracle flight’. Two hundred and thirty –eight (238) Jamaicans coming from China, Japan, Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa are now in Jamaica.

They are the latest cohort to be repatriated under the government’s controlled re-entry programme.