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Shahine Robinson and Fakhourie pulled into citizenship case
RRJR Jamaica
Friday, 31 August 2007
Two persons associated with the People's National Party (PNP) have carried out threats to wage a legal battle against Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidates, who are reportedly legally tied to another sovereign state.
RJR News has received confirmation that the PNP candidate for Western Portland, Abe Dabdoub and Manley Bowen have filed motions to this effect in the Supreme Court. against the JLP's Daryl Vaz and Shahini Robinson
The dual citizenship war is now in the legal arena.
The campaign has been a stormy one in Western Portland marred by uncivil language between the two men.
Mr. Dabdoub has been a thorn in the PNP side in the past.
But now that he is estranged from the JLP his vitriol has been redirected.
The man who is known to run to the court to get redress in electoral dispute in the past has taken the fight into the legal domain.
We received the affidavit filed Thursday by the attorney.
Apart from Mr. Vaz, Carlton Harris, the Returning Officer for the constituency has been named in the suit.
So has the Attorney General's office.
The affidavit states in part that "Mr. Vaz is the holder of a passport issued by the Government of the United States and is by virtue of his own act, under an acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state in contravention of Section 40 of the Jamaican constitution".
Dabdoub claims that Vaz has travelled extensively to the United States.
The PNP candidate argues that against this background Vaz should be disqualified from being elected as a Member of Parliament in Monday's General Election.
Within this context, Dabdoub said Vaz's nomination on August 7 should be declared null and void.
He declares that the entire country of Jamaica would suffer severely from the uncertainty of not having the court pronounce swiftly on the issue.
In 1997, Dabdoub raced to the court after he lost the North East St. Catherine seat to Phyliss Mitchell.
The court ruled in Dabdoub's favour a year before the 2002 General Election.
In the meantime, former MP for North East St. Ann Manley Bowen is spearheading a legal battle against the JLP candidate Shahine Robinson.
Mr. Bowen who represented the constituency between 1989 and 1997 Friday confirmed that he has signed the documents and turned them over to his lawyers.
The PNP has been contending that Mrs. Robinson and her brother Peter Fakhouri are United States citizens.
RRJR Jamaica
Friday, 31 August 2007
Two persons associated with the People's National Party (PNP) have carried out threats to wage a legal battle against Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidates, who are reportedly legally tied to another sovereign state.
RJR News has received confirmation that the PNP candidate for Western Portland, Abe Dabdoub and Manley Bowen have filed motions to this effect in the Supreme Court. against the JLP's Daryl Vaz and Shahini Robinson
The dual citizenship war is now in the legal arena.
The campaign has been a stormy one in Western Portland marred by uncivil language between the two men.
Mr. Dabdoub has been a thorn in the PNP side in the past.
But now that he is estranged from the JLP his vitriol has been redirected.
The man who is known to run to the court to get redress in electoral dispute in the past has taken the fight into the legal domain.
We received the affidavit filed Thursday by the attorney.
Apart from Mr. Vaz, Carlton Harris, the Returning Officer for the constituency has been named in the suit.
So has the Attorney General's office.
The affidavit states in part that "Mr. Vaz is the holder of a passport issued by the Government of the United States and is by virtue of his own act, under an acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state in contravention of Section 40 of the Jamaican constitution".
Dabdoub claims that Vaz has travelled extensively to the United States.
The PNP candidate argues that against this background Vaz should be disqualified from being elected as a Member of Parliament in Monday's General Election.
Within this context, Dabdoub said Vaz's nomination on August 7 should be declared null and void.
He declares that the entire country of Jamaica would suffer severely from the uncertainty of not having the court pronounce swiftly on the issue.
In 1997, Dabdoub raced to the court after he lost the North East St. Catherine seat to Phyliss Mitchell.
The court ruled in Dabdoub's favour a year before the 2002 General Election.
In the meantime, former MP for North East St. Ann Manley Bowen is spearheading a legal battle against the JLP candidate Shahine Robinson.
Mr. Bowen who represented the constituency between 1989 and 1997 Friday confirmed that he has signed the documents and turned them over to his lawyers.
The PNP has been contending that Mrs. Robinson and her brother Peter Fakhouri are United States citizens.
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