More than 80 percent of respondents to a Royal Gazette online poll agree with Government's decision to require Jamaican visitors to have visas.

In an unscientific poll that ended yesterday on www.theroyalgazette.com, 82.3 percent of the 939 respondents said Jamaican visitors should be required to get visas before coming to the Island.

Just 14.1 percent said no to the question and 3.6 percent said they did not know.

Home Affairs Minister Terry Lister announced last week that Jamaican visitors would be required to have visas to enter the Island.

Mr. Lister said Government had taken the step because of concerns about Jamaican drug mules swallowing cocaine, and the number of people who arrived as visitors but disappeared rather than return to the high-crime Caribbean island.

The British Government introduced a similar requirement earlier this month.