Of course, it would have been too obviously cynical to confine the amendment to Guyanese. Hence the wording Commonwealth Caribbean . But when Grenada's Gairy sought to use it for similar purposes, the Trinidad government wouldn't let him. With a history like this, it is not surprising that there should now be inconsistencies between the latest versions of the Citizenship Act and the Constitution. But the intent of the successive amendments is clear.
Dual citizenship is permitted.
The rights of a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago cannot therefore be diminished by it. One of those rights is to sit in Parliament. The United States requires naturalised Americans to renounce any other citizenship. But renunciations made under US law need have no force here if we don't want them to. He deserves the opportunity to serve his people.