Vaz says Golding’s Citizenship Leak Came from the PNP

West Portland Member of Parliament, the Jamaica Labour Party’s Daryl Vaz says the information he received relating to the citizenship status of People’s National Party,PNP, president, Mark Golding, came from within the inner sanctum of the PNP.

Vaz, who’s also the technology minister, made the comment on ‘X’ on Tuesday morning.

He was reacting to a statement from the PNP which accused him of obtaining sensitive information about Mark Golding from a state agency.

The statement from the PNP did not deny the claims made by Daryl Vaz.

In his post, which appeared on ‘X’ at 1:54 am, Vaz said contrary to the assertion in that statement, his source resides deep in the belly of the PNP.

He added that like good journalists, good politicians never call the names of their trusted sources.

Speaking on Cliff Hughes Online on Monday morning, Vaz revealed that it was only in 2011 that then Senator Mark Golding chose to obtain a Jamaican passport.

Golding was 46-years-old at the time.

Vaz said it was shameful that Golding sat for four years as a legislator, helping to make laws as a parliamentarian, before seeing the need to obtain a Jamaican passport.

Vaz suggested that Golding may have been pushed to get the document because he wanted the privilege of having a diplomatic passport, should the PNP form the government and he became a minister of government.

Golding was appointed justice minister in January 2012, after the PNP won the general election in December, 2011.