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Diaspora group wants non-Ja Commonwealth citizens barred
Keep them out! Diaspora group wants non-Jamaican Commonwealth citizens barred from Parliament
Published: Friday | January 29, 2010
Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
The Jamaican diaspora group in Canada wants changes to the Constitution to bar Commonwealth citizens who are not Jamaicans from being eligible to sit in Parliament.
At the same time, representatives from the diaspora have argued against giving Jamaicans overseas voting rights to elect a government in Jamaica.
At present, the Constitution allows Commonwealth citizens who reside in Jamaica for a year to run for a seat in the nation's Parliament.
Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams, a member of the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation, said her group was not in favour of a non-Jamaican who was a Commonwealth citizen holding office in the Jamaican Parliament.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ead/lead1.html
Published: Friday | January 29, 2010
Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
The Jamaican diaspora group in Canada wants changes to the Constitution to bar Commonwealth citizens who are not Jamaicans from being eligible to sit in Parliament.
At the same time, representatives from the diaspora have argued against giving Jamaicans overseas voting rights to elect a government in Jamaica.
At present, the Constitution allows Commonwealth citizens who reside in Jamaica for a year to run for a seat in the nation's Parliament.
Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams, a member of the Jamaican Diaspora Canada Foundation, said her group was not in favour of a non-Jamaican who was a Commonwealth citizen holding office in the Jamaican Parliament.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ead/lead1.html
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