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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Shahine Robinson To Be Sworn In Today ( Gleaner )...</span>
The Government has decided to go ahead with the swearing-in of recently re-elected Member of Parliament Shahine Robinson despite threats by the Marcus Garvey-founded People's Political Party (PPP) to go to the courts to block her return to Gordon House.Robinson is slated to be sworn in today at King's House, three weeks after electors in North East St Ann voted her back into a seat she was kicked out of by the court after it was determined that she held United Statescitizenship at the time she was nominated in 2007.The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) standard-bearer had indicated that she renounced her US citizenship to become eligible to continue representing the people of the St Ann constituency.However, Michael Lorne, president of the PPP, which was represented by journalist Devon Evans in the by-election, has argued that Robinson is yet to provide proof that she held Jamaican citizenship at the time she was nominated.Lorne has said the party would go to court today to seek an injunction blocking the swearing-in.This has been scoffed at by JLP General Secretary Aundré Franklin, who argued that Lorne's manoeuvre was "not only an exercise in triviality and futility, but public mischief".According to Franklin, Lorne, an attorney-at-law, ought to have researched the Jamaican Nationality Act and familiarised himself with its provisions."For a Jamaican national by birth who acquires citizenship of another country to be relieved of his Jamaican citizenship, he must have made a voluntary declaration of renunciation on the prescribed form to the minister of national security, who is then required to cause the declaration to be registered," Franklin said on the weekend."Only after that is done can he deny or be denied recognition as a citizen of Jamaica."He said Robinson had done no such thing.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...69561269753769
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Shahine Robinson To Be Sworn In Today ( Gleaner )...</span>
The Government has decided to go ahead with the swearing-in of recently re-elected Member of Parliament Shahine Robinson despite threats by the Marcus Garvey-founded People's Political Party (PPP) to go to the courts to block her return to Gordon House.Robinson is slated to be sworn in today at King's House, three weeks after electors in North East St Ann voted her back into a seat she was kicked out of by the court after it was determined that she held United Statescitizenship at the time she was nominated in 2007.The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) standard-bearer had indicated that she renounced her US citizenship to become eligible to continue representing the people of the St Ann constituency.However, Michael Lorne, president of the PPP, which was represented by journalist Devon Evans in the by-election, has argued that Robinson is yet to provide proof that she held Jamaican citizenship at the time she was nominated.Lorne has said the party would go to court today to seek an injunction blocking the swearing-in.This has been scoffed at by JLP General Secretary Aundré Franklin, who argued that Lorne's manoeuvre was "not only an exercise in triviality and futility, but public mischief".According to Franklin, Lorne, an attorney-at-law, ought to have researched the Jamaican Nationality Act and familiarised himself with its provisions."For a Jamaican national by birth who acquires citizenship of another country to be relieved of his Jamaican citizenship, he must have made a voluntary declaration of renunciation on the prescribed form to the minister of national security, who is then required to cause the declaration to be registered," Franklin said on the weekend."Only after that is done can he deny or be denied recognition as a citizen of Jamaica."He said Robinson had done no such thing.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...69561269753769