There may indeed be nothing to hide, or that is being hidden, in Jamaica’s third-country national (TCN) agreement with the United States. In which case, there is, or ought to be, no basis for keeping it secret. Neither is it enough merely to say, or imply, as Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith did last week, that the Americans want the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to remain concealed and that Jamaicans should take her word about the efficacy and relative harmlessness of the arrangement.