JG - Appeal Court tells all

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

Appeal Court tells all

Published: Sunday March 15, 2009

The Court of Appeal has said in its very detailed reasons for upholding Chief Justice Zaila McCalla's ruling that there should be a by-election in the West Portland constituency, that the "electorate are not to have imposed upon them a person for whom the majority of them did not cast their votes".

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"People's National Party candidate, Abe Dabdoub, had filed an election petition after the September 3, 2007, general election, contending that Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz had dual citizenship and was not entitled to be an MP.

Chief Justice Zaila McCalla heard the election petition and ruled that because Vaz, who had inherited American citizenship from his mother, obtained a United States passport as an adult and travelled on it, he had pledged allegiance to a foreign power.

The chief justice ruled that Vaz was not eligible to sit in Parliament and ordered a by-election."