Edmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter
Attorney-at-law Jalil Dabdoub says if the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Norman Horne holds United States citizenship, the governor general and leader of the Opposition should act by withdrawing his appointment and bring the ensuing Senate debacle to an immediate end.
Speculation has for weeks hung over Horne that he is the holder of a valid United States passport, rendering him ineligible for membership in the Senate. Only Commonwealth dual citizenship is allowed for holders of seats in Jamaica’s bicameral Parliament.
“For either of them to continue to fail to act would be a dereliction of their own constitutional duties,” said Dabdoub in a letter to the editor published in today’s