Online Feedback

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story, 'Come Clean: Thwaites urges MPs to declare citizenship status as election looms'.

Dual citizenship feeds many

Deacon Ronnie Thwaites, we would be a much safer island if you urge the MPs to come clean on their association with gunmen and dons. Dual citizenship has never killed one Jamaican. In fact, dual citizenship is feeding, clothing and schooling many Jamaicans. Last, but not least, dual citizenship is providing money to pay the private sector for free health care for many Jamaican, yes the free health care Government promised them, the free health care with limited access. All the moneys sent home for the things mentioned above was earned by people with dual citizenship. A couple illegal persons may be in it too, but we have to hold it down. Go and attack the things that matter most, Mr Thwaites.

Nichenry88

Politicians change rules to suit themselves

It is a very dangerous thing to place our confidence in politicians. There was a time when Jamaicans abroad were urged to attain citizenship in their adopted countries. Now, it appears that dual citizenship in not en vogue.

Politicians change the rules to suit themselves and their associates. It has absolutely nothing to do with the growth and development of Jamaica. Perhaps this may be because they have found other ways and means to live in foreign countries without attaining citizenship in those nations.

There are those in Jamaica who did not hold dual citizenship, and now that their tenures have ended, they seldom spend time on the island that they have helped to ruin.

St Marian

Citizenship test for all candidates

Why have a constitution if the very people who have sworn to uphold and defend that same constitution are in violation of the said document?.

There goes the reason why no one can consider the Parliament of Jamaica a real government, if the people do not have the backbone to demand that the people who they hire to serve them are not citizens.

The citizenship issue is the first hurdle that every candidate should have to go through before they became eligible to be a candidate for public office. Failure to meet that requirement should render the individual ineligible to hold office.

Jamericabiz