ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC:
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal will on Tuesday begin hearing arguments in a petition filed by the defeated candidates of the main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) challenging the nomination of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and his Education Minister Petter Saint Jean to contest the 2009 general election.

Former UWP leader Ron Green and his colleague, Maynard Joseph, are appealing a January 2012 ruling by High Court judge Gertel Thom that they failed to establish a case against the two government ministers.

Both men had challenged the results of the Vielle Case and La Plaine constituencies that were won by Skerrit and Saint Jean respectively during the December 18, 2009 general elections that Skerrit’s Dominica Labour Party (DLP) won by a convincing margin.