A senior member of the Barack Obama administration revealed today that a "series" of extradition requests has been made by the United States Government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether Jamaican elected officials are on the list.

Dr Arturo A. Valenzuela, US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs said the US Government was anticipating the processing of the requests.

"There is a series of extraditions that the United States still has requested and we look forward to those being processed," he said earlier today at a press briefing at the US embassy in St Andrew.