From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sharon Hay-Webster
Sharon Hay-Webster
Sharon Hay-Webster PNP stronghold, having previously been held by Ripton
McPherson and then Derrick Heaven. She was returned
Member of Parliament to her seat in the 2002 elections, part of a widespread PNP
for South Central St. Catherine
victory which saw them retain their parliamentary ma-
In office jority for a record fourth straight term.[7]
1997–2012
Preceded by Heather Robinson Second term
Personal details
Nationality American, Jamaican
Bringing Aristide to Jamaica
The major highlight of Hay-Webster’s second term was
Political Independent (formerly People’s National
her March 2004 trip to the Central African Republic on
party Party)
behalf of Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson and the
Alma mater University of the West Indies Caribbean Community, to meet with Jean-Bertrand Aris-
tide after he was overthrown in the 2004 Haitian rebel-
Sharon Hay-Webster (born 29 September 1961) is a Ja- lion and to discuss his desire to return to Haiti. She was
maican politician, a Member of the House of Represen- part of a larger delegation which also included African
tatives of the Parliament of Jamaica since 1997, formerly American dignitaries, namely TransAfrica Forum
with the People’s National Party.[1] She came to inter- founder Randall Robinson and U.S. congresswoman Max-
national attention after the 2004 Haitian rebellion, when ine Waters.[8] She described the visit as tense: at the time,
she escorted Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his temporary the CAR was marking one year since the coup by François
exile in the Central African Republic to Jamaica at the in- Bozizé, and the CAR government put out a heavy military
vitation of then-Prime Minister of Jamaica P. J. Patter- presence in anticipation of trouble.[7] She then escorted
son.[2] Aristide to Jamaica, in what she later described as a "hu-
Hay-Webster’s third term in parliament was marred manitarian action" and not a political one.[2][9] Aristide
by a controversy over her citizenship in the United would remain in Jamaica until the end of May, when he
States, leading her to announce in 2009 that she would left for South Africa.[10]
renounce her U.S. citizenship. However, in 2011 it came
to light through the WikiLeaks United States diplomatic Controversies
cables leak that she had withdrawn her application for In July 2003, during a parliamentary debate on childcare,
renunciation, meaning she remained a U.S. citizen. As the Hay-Webster suggested that young women with three or
ongoing controversy heated up, Hay-Webster resigned more children be subject to compulsory sterilisation. Op-
from the PNP, and her former party called for her to step position parliamentarian Ernie Smith spoke out in favour
down from her parliamentary seat as well.[3] Her resigna- of the idea, and further suggested that schoolgirls un-
tion from the PNP made her only the third independent dergo regular virginity tests in order to clamp down on
politician in 19 years to sit in parliament.[4] teenage pregnancy.[11] Local businessman Sameer You-
nis also made public statements in support of her idea.[12]
Entry into politics In contrast, Vernon Daley, a columnist for the Jamaica
Gleaner, described Hay-Webster as making a fool of her-
Prior to entering politics. Hay-Webster was a lecturer at
self by proposing outdated ideas based on shallow think-
the University of Technology, Jamaica.[5] She had also
ing.[13] Another Gleaner column derided Hay-Webster’s
worked as an employee of the Social Development Com-
idea as "medieval".[14] Spokespersons for local human
mission, then part of the Ministry of Youth and Com-
rights organisation Jamaicans for Justice and women’s
munity Development.[6] The man who would become her
rights groups Women’s Inc. and Women’s Media Watch
husband initially opposed her ambition to become a
also described the proposals as crazy, invasive, and
politician. She first ran for election in 1997 under the PNP
gender-biased.[15]
banner, easily beating Jamaica Labour Party candidate
Hay-Webster’s second term in office was also punctu-
Tom Tavares Finson to win the race in the South Cen-
ated by controversies over Spanish Town gang violence
tral St. Catherine constituency, succeeding PNP incum-
between Oliver "Bubba" Smith’s One Order gang and
bent Heather Robinson. The seat itself was a long-time
Donovan "Bulbie" Bennett’s Clansman gang, the former
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supporters of the JLP and the latter of Hay-Webster’s own act, under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience
PNP. In February 2004, fighting broke out between the or adherence to a foreign Power or State" (though Ar-
two rival gangs, leaving 19 dead. The trigger for the vi- ticle 39 exempts Commonwealth citizens from this limi-
olence was reported to be a conflict over control of the tation).[23] At the time, media reports about the citizen-
lucrative protection racket surrounding the town’s bus ship controversies noted that Hay-Webster had been a
terminal.[16] In the aftermath, Hay-Webster made pub- U.S. citizen and later naturalised as a Jamaican, making
lic statements distancing herself from the violence and her the only naturalised MP, but no indication was given
claiming she had no ties to the gang leaders, earning that she remained a U.S. citizen.[22] In late April 2008,
her criticism even from fellow PNP member and former Hay-Webster’s retention of U.S. citizenship came to light.
South Central St. Catherine MP Heather Robinson.[7] Jamaican PM Bruce Golding and other JLP members, re-
After the killing of Bennett in November 2005, Clansman sponding to continuing criticism over the U.S. citizen-
members publicly proclaimed that they were withdraw- ship of JLP member Daryl Vaz (whose candidacy had been
ing their support for the PNP. Hay-Webster admitted that struck down by the Supreme Court of Jamaica) pointed
she previously had dealings with Bennett’s followers, and out in parliament that a member of the PNP was in a
expressed confidence that she could win back their sup- similar citizenship situation as Vaz. The MP in question
port, but denied that she had any dealings with Bennett was not named in parliamentary debate, but JLP mem-
himself.[17] However, in later years she crossed party bers gave media interviews in the following week, lead-
lines to work with fellow woman politician and neigh- ing to the revelation that Golding was referring to Hay-
bouring South East St. Catherine MP Olivia Grange, suc- Webster.[6] The Supreme Court, in ruling against Vaz,
cessfully reducing gang violence.[5] stated that acquiring, renewing, and travelling on a Unit-
ed States passport were all acts of allegiance to a foreign
Re-election campaign power; Hay-Webster stated that her case was not at all
In her re-election campaign for the 2007 elections, Hay- analogous to Vaz’, because her US passport had long ex-
Webster faced off against Devon McDaniel, a JLP member pired and she had never renewed it; she further empha-
who had formerly represented the South Trelawny con- sised that she had no economic or other ties to the United
stituency but withdrew from politics in 2005, only to an- States, and had never even filed a tax return there.[24][25]
nounce in February 2007 that he would stand against Nevertheless, the PNP consulted with its lawyers over the
Hay-Webster for the St. Catherine seat instead.[18] Media issue, and unconfirmed reports said she had been urged
reports suggested that the PNP could face a strong chal- to resign.[26] However, for another year, no one would
lenge from the JLP in the race for the South East and challenge her eligibility to her seat.[27]
South Central seats in St. Catherine.[19] Hay-Webster and In 2009, the two parties came to a compromise over
her opponents signed a Political Code of Conduct pledg- the citizenship issue: JLP MPs Gregory Mair, Michael
ing to keep the elections violence-free.[20] On Nomina- Stern, and Shahine Robinson renounce their foreign cit-
tion Day (8 August), Webster and McDaniel both turned izenships, in exchange for a PNP pledge not to contest
out with marches of hundreds supporters to the nomina- their seats. However, after Mair was removed from Par-
tion centre at Spanish Village Plaza in Spanish Town; the liament by court order, the PNP put forth a candidate
police were called out, but the rival groups mingled with- Granville Valentine in his constituency for the resulting
out violence.[21] Hay-Webster herself was returned to her by-election, leading to the breakdown of the agreement.
seat, but the PNP as a whole lost their parliamentary ma- PM Golding then filed constitutional motions against PNP
jority. members Ian Hayles and Hay-Webster in May 2009.[28][29]
In August 2009, Hay-Webster seemed to be ready to sur-
render on the issue, making a public statement that she
Third term would renounce her US citizenship.[30] However, even af-
ter that announcement, the JLP was still said to be get-
Citizenship controversy ting ready to serve court papers against her, as part of
The major issue in Hay-Webster’s third term would be their larger strategy leading up to the by-elections trig-
her U.S. citizenship, part of a larger battle between the gered by Stern’s resignation.[31] Hay-Webster came un-
JLP and the PNP over foreign citizenships held by their der heavy pressure from influential constituents to relin-
respective members which broke out almost immediate- quish her seat, and in December 2009 she was said to be
ly after the 2007 elections. The JLP won a slim majority, in discussions with fellow PNP member and onetime MP
but immediately faced challenges in the victories of two Colin Campbell about the possibility for him to run for
of their members.[22] According to Article 40 of the Con- her seat.[32]
stitution of Jamaica, "[n]o person shall be qualified to be The citizenship issue continued to drag out over the
appointed as a Senator or elected as a member of the following year. In early June 2010, the JLP made a motion
House of Representatives who is, by virtue of his own in parliament to unseat Hay-Webster, soon after JLP
Shahine Robinson had been removed from her own seat
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follwoing a challenge by PNP member Manley Bowen, stepped down from her position in the PNP’s shadow
leaving the JLP with just a 31-28 majority in parlia- Cabinet; the PNP also removed from the parliament’s
ment.[33] Later that month, she announced that she crime committee with no advance notice.[42][43] In 2010,
would not be seeking a fourth term in office, though she she gave an interview to the Jamaica Gleaner in which she
denied that the citizenship issue had anything to do with expressed regret that she had been unable to emulate
her decision.[5] A Jamaica Gleaner editorial in September Michael Manley’s social impact of the 1970s which had
2010 decried her behaviour as "shameless".[34] In Decem- inspired her to enter politics in the first place. [5]
ber 2010, the JLP made an application to the Supreme In June 2011, after Hay-Webster’s retention of U.S.
Court of Jamaica challenging Hay-Webster’s eligibility to citizenship was revealed, controversy inside the PNP
sit in parliament due to the fact of her having been a U.S. grew, and on 28 June, she resigned from the PNP, bitterly
citizen at the time of the 2007 elections. Hay-Webster de- complaining of "abuse and lack of support" from the par-
clined to comment on the issue.[35] It is possible that the ty.[44] She also criticised the party for "focus[ing] on
court may retroactively disqualifies her candidacy all the power rather than principle", echoing complaints over
way back to her original election in 1997, meaning that the preceding decade about Portia Simpson Miller’s lead-
she might lose her entitlement to a parliamentary pen- ership made by fellow party members such as Region
sion, granted to members of parliament who serve for Three functionary Paul Burke and PNP Youth Organisa-
more than two terms.[4] In response to the challenge, the tion chairman Damion Crawford.[45] In response to Hay-
PNP stated that it would uphold the constitution, but al- Webster, PNP general secretary Peter Bunting said that
so expressed concern that the challenge had been filed Hay-Webster had a credibility problem, and called on her
so late in Hay-Webster’s term, possibly contravening the to follow up on her withdrawal from the party by step-
Election Petitions Act.[36] The court papers were finally ping down from parliament rather than remaining in
served on 13 January 2011, with the hearing date set for her seat as an independent MP.[3] Hay-Webster dropped
17 February.[37] The issue seemed to be going nowhere; in hints that she might "cross the aisle" and join the JLP in-
March 2011, Golding admitted he had been dragging out stead; JLP general secretary Aundre Franklin was quot-
the resolution of the citizenship issue in order to avoid ed as saying in response that "the doors of the party are
undermining his party’s majority in parliament.[38] open ... but the principles of the JLP will not be held
However, new developments would be seen in the hostage to any negotiations".[46]
controversy over Hay-Webster’s citizenship issues due to
the United States diplomatic cables leak. On 22 May 2011,
WikiLeaks released a cable dated 17 August 2009 regard-
Personal life
ing the furor over Jamaican MPs’ nationality issues.[39] Hay-Webster was born at Mountainside Hospital in Glen
The contents of the cable were reported the same day in Ridge, New Jersey in the United States.[25] She thus has
the Jamaica Gleaner. According to one statement therein, birthright citizenship there, though she did not publicly
Hay-Webster had visited the US embassy in Kingston to admit this until late in her career.[35] Earlier media re-
renounce her United States citizenship on 31 July 2009, ports claimed she was born in Kingston, Jamaica.[7] Her
but returned four days later to withdraw the renunci- grandfather Lucien Hay and father Lloyd Hay were both
ation. Hay-Webster gave no immediate response to the involved in PNP politics, the former as an assistant to
matter, stating only that her lawyer had advised her to Norman Manley and the latter as the PNP’s unsuccessful
withhold comment.[40] Hay-Webster later stated that she candidate in the North East St Catherine constituency in
had changed her mind on her renunciation after advice the 1976 general election.[5] Her mother was Haitian.[6]
from local and foreign lawyers, stating that her circum- Hay-Webster’s family moved to Jamaica just a few
stances differed from the facts of previous Supreme months after her birth and raised her there.[6][25] She
Court cases on dual citizen MPs. Jamaica Observer colum- graduated from St Hugh’s Preparatory School and the
nist Clare Forrester spoke out in support of Hay-Webster; University of the West Indies. She had long been inter-
however, broader public opinion was turning against ested in politics; and in later interviews claimed that the
her.[41] most exciting thing about turning 18 was that she gained
the right to vote. She was especially attracted by the so-
Party membership cialist ideals of PM Michael Manley.[7] She applied for Ja-
As early as 2008, it had been speculated that Hay-Web- maican citizenship in 1987, and took the Oath of Allegian-
ster’s days with the PNP might be numbered.[5] That ce the following year.[6] She married after entering poli-
year, she threw her support behind Peter Phillips’ can- tics. She and her husband would go on to have two chil-
didacy for the presidency of the PNP against incumbent dren, but later divorced.[7] Her uncle Calvin Fitz-Henley
Portia Simpson Miller; however, Phillips lost his bid, plac- was murdered in downtown Kingston in May 2008.[47]
ing Hay-Webster in an increasingly precarious position.
In late September, in the aftermath of the failed bid, she
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