PNP to decide Hay-Webster's fate

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PNP to decide Hay-Webster's fate
2011-05-27 12:36:30 |




The hierarchy of the People’s National Party (PNP) is meeting at this hour to determine the fate of South Central St Catherine Member of Parliament Sharon Hay-Webster.

It follows the Gleaner publication of a Wikileaks cable indicating that the US Embassy believes Hay Webster had deliberately set out to mislead the Jamaican people about her dual-nationality status.

One of the options being considered is for Hay-Webster to resign as an Opposition member and sit in the House as an independent MP.

On Sunday The Gleaner published details of a diplomatic cable, in which the US embassy in Kingston alleged that the opposition MP visited its offices on July 31, 2009, to renounce her US citizenship only to return four days later to withdraw the application.

But in a Letter the Editor published in yesterday’s Gleaner Hay-Webster said her visit to the US Embassy in 2009 took place before she received legal advice regarding the constitutionality of her status.

In her letter Hay-Webster also sought to lay out the facts relating to her citizenship.

She argues that she did not acquire that citizenship by her own act as she was born in New Jersey in the US.

Hay-Webster says he came to Jamaica in 1962, a year after her she was born and received all her schooling here.

She also says the first time she went to the US since she came here was in 1990, when she obtained a visa to participate in an Organisation of American States Caribbean Youth in Business Study Tour to North Carolina.

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Re: PNP to decide Hay-Webster's fate

Whenever I comment on these matters I am always at pains to point out that the precedent for dealing with Dual Citizenship matters <span style="font-style: italic">(as regards to Politicians and others who fall under the provisions of the section of the Jamaica Constitution dealing with such matters and in the face of a campaign, led by the PNP)</span>, was set when Eddie Blinds voluntarily renounced his USA Citizenship.

One of the earliest signs of Bruised Gelding's incompetence, manifested itself in the vetting of his slate of Candidates leading up to the 2007 General Elections. Since it was a Labour Party Candidate that was raked over the coals and to this day is still being made to suffer for the involuntary act of being born a USA Citizen, one would think subsequent Labour Party Leaders would at least put their candidates out of harm's way where that is considered.

Even worse than the obvious JLP Leader's incompetence is the Comrades dishonesty, since they wrote the book on how to marginalize the JLP Candidates/MHRs holding dual citizenship. They also wrote the song: The Struggle <span style="font-style: italic">(My Leader Born Yah) </span>and they renewed the debate before and after the 2007 Elections. Successfully Challenging JLP offenders and anyone within a hare's breath of holding Dual/Dubious Nationality. See DeadDaub vs. All-Comers

All of the above pale, when compared to the fact that the USA have apparently found the two most inept <span style="font-style: italic">(and quite possibly the most corrupt)</span> Jamaican Politicians to be their lap-dogs. This makes it triple more important that Jamaica Politicians and other major State Office holders should have no other Citizenship but of Jamaica. It is bad enough to influence a born and bread Jamaican, but what if unkle sam, start reminding all its USA Citizen Jamaicans and Green Card Patriots where their food come from?

I think the <span style="font-weight: bold">USA-Haitian-Jamaican Princess</span> with the forked tongue should be made to walk the Plank!