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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Comeback looms - Shahine nominated for Christmas election ( Gleaner )...</span>
Prime Minister Bruce Golding says persons who are unconvinced that Shahine Robinson renounced her allegiance to the United States should go to him for the answers. Golding issued the invitation yesterday after he accompanied Robinson to the nomination centre in St Ann's Bay to put her on the ballot for the December 20 by-election in North East St Ann. "Who are those persons? Ask them to get in touch with me, I'll show it to them. If they get in touch with me, I'll let them have a look at it," Golding said yesterday.The prime minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader was told that persons have questioned whether Robinson has given up her citizenship .Robinson was booted by the court after she confessed to being a US citizen at the time of her nomination for the 2007 general election. The Constitution prohibits persons who are under acknowledgement of allegiance or obedience from a foreign power from sitting in Parliament.Yesterday, Robinson was nominated alongside journalist Devon Evans of the Marcus Garvey People's Progressive Party.The Opposition People's National Party (PNP), National Democratic Movement, and the New Nation Coalition did not field candidates.On yesterday's incident-free day, Robinson was the first to be nominated. She arrived at the nomination centre shortly after 1:15 p.m. The top brass of the JLP, headed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, and including Audley Shaw and James Robertson, led scores of supporters who came out to offer Robinson their support.Evans and his small group of supporters followed shortly after 1:30.Golding expressed confidence that his party would retain the seat which Robinson won by over 2,000 votes in the 2007 election."We are very confident. We would have been just as confident if the PNP had decided to contest the election," he told reporters.Meanwhile, Evans said if elected, his first task would be to unite the people."They (people) have been caught up in a two-party system which tears them apart and is tearing down the community," he said.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Comeback looms - Shahine nominated for Christmas election ( Gleaner )...</span>
Prime Minister Bruce Golding says persons who are unconvinced that Shahine Robinson renounced her allegiance to the United States should go to him for the answers. Golding issued the invitation yesterday after he accompanied Robinson to the nomination centre in St Ann's Bay to put her on the ballot for the December 20 by-election in North East St Ann. "Who are those persons? Ask them to get in touch with me, I'll show it to them. If they get in touch with me, I'll let them have a look at it," Golding said yesterday.The prime minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader was told that persons have questioned whether Robinson has given up her citizenship .Robinson was booted by the court after she confessed to being a US citizen at the time of her nomination for the 2007 general election. The Constitution prohibits persons who are under acknowledgement of allegiance or obedience from a foreign power from sitting in Parliament.Yesterday, Robinson was nominated alongside journalist Devon Evans of the Marcus Garvey People's Progressive Party.The Opposition People's National Party (PNP), National Democratic Movement, and the New Nation Coalition did not field candidates.On yesterday's incident-free day, Robinson was the first to be nominated. She arrived at the nomination centre shortly after 1:15 p.m. The top brass of the JLP, headed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, and including Audley Shaw and James Robertson, led scores of supporters who came out to offer Robinson their support.Evans and his small group of supporters followed shortly after 1:30.Golding expressed confidence that his party would retain the seat which Robinson won by over 2,000 votes in the 2007 election."We are very confident. We would have been just as confident if the PNP had decided to contest the election," he told reporters.Meanwhile, Evans said if elected, his first task would be to unite the people."They (people) have been caught up in a two-party system which tears them apart and is tearing down the community," he said.