The Editor, Sir:

Mrs Marsha Millar (Letters, Tuesday April 15) is afraid that if she wants to go into Jamaican politics when she retires and comes back home from England a Jamaican court may tell her and her children that as the holders of dual British and Jamaican nationality they will "be denied the right to hold a position in Parliament as an elected MP that the people democratically voted for".

She may rest at least temporarily at ease. Section 39 ("Qualification for membership of Senate and House of Representatives") of the Jamaican Constitution is clear on the matter.

Uphold the Constitution

So long as the Jamaican courts remain committed to uphold the Constitution and so long as there is no amendment to that Constitution's Section 39 and so long as Britain does not leave the Commonwealth, therefore, Mrs Millar and her children are unlikely to encounter any Jamaican Court which would seek to interpose what would patently be a spurious constitutional barrier between themselves and Gordon House.

I am, etc.,

MICHAEL PRESCOD

16 Roselle Avenue

Kingston 6