Update | Foreign affairs ministry clarifies Ariel Bowen's role at New York consulate

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has clarified that Ariel Bowen is being deployed to the Consulate-General of Jamaica in New York as Officer-in-Charge.

A previous Gleaner report had stated that she was taking up the post of interim consul-general.

However, in a media release on Friday, the ministry said that Bowen, who is Acting Under-Secretary for Diaspora, Consular and Protocol and Consular Affairs, will support continuity of operations while the Government proceeds with the established process for appointing a new consul-general.

Bowen's redeployment follows the recent death of former Consul-General Alsion Marie Wilson.

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