WESTERN BUREAU:
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says justices of the peace (JPs) who are not being thorough in exercising due diligence in performing their duties are allowing criminals to get away with illicitly obtaining documents such as driver’s licences and multiple passports in different names.
In declaring that JPs should be above reproach, the justice minister said they should be of unquestionable integrity and should be committed to promoting and protecting the rights of individuals.
“Don’t be a part of that (illegal activities) problem,” said Chuck, as he admonished and charged the 45 newly commissioned JPs in St James, during their installation ceremony in Montego Bay on Wednesday.
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Former parliamentarian Ronald Thwaites is calling for the urgent revival of discussions around dual citizenship in the House of Representatives, which a joint select committee began after he tabled a motion in 2010 but were never brought to a fruitful conclusion.
Thwaites’ motion would have required all members of the Lower and Upper Houses to declare their citizenship status following a series of by-elections triggered by a court ruling that the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Daryl Vaz was ineligible to sit in the Parliament as a result of his United States citizenship following the 2007 general election.
The ruling also resulted in three other JLP members of parliament – Gregory Mair, Michael Stern and Shahine Robinson – having to vacate their seats. All four were returned in by-elections after renouncing their foreign citizenship.
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