No !!! Zharnel Hughes is not the new Usain Bolt

[Time]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...Rio-Games.html

Hughes would not have a problem getting a Jamaican passport (it is his birth right) or choosing Jamaica as his first adult team but be cannot make the Jamaica Rio team. The comparison Bolt is laughable. Bolt set his Youth records after easing of the gas because there was no competition. This Youth came from behind to set his record.

[Sir X]

My understanding as per Jamaican citizenship is its automatic if either parent is Jamaican,you don't have to be born in JA.

[Time]

My understanding as per Jamaican citizenship is its automatic if either parent is Jamaican,you don't have to be born in JA.

Yes, that is what I meant by birth right. He is Jamaican by Birth via his mother.

[Bricktop]

doesn't make dollars or sense to run for jamaica...he probably wouldn't make the team anyway...

[Sir X]

Making the team is one thing ,dollars and sense is another,if he runs for JA and beats all under the sun,it makes dollars and sense ,esp in the black,gold and green.Sorry to buss yuh bubble.

[Bricktop]

well he isn't gonna beat all under the sun...so he better take the guaranteed money from GB...he is a boy in a man's game...he won't be ready for 4-5 years...

[Time]

well he isn't gonna beat all under the sun...so he better take the guaranteed money from GB...he is a boy in a man's game...he won't be ready for 4-5 years...

Precisely.

[Gamma]

Not by birth if he was not born in Jamaica. He would have to be naturalized as a Jamaican

[Time]

Not by birth if he was not born in Jamaica. He would have to be naturalized as a Jamaican

No my learned friend. Under Chapter of the Jamaica Constitution is not required to be naturalized because he was a citizen the moment that he popped out of his mother, i.e. at birth i.e. by birth.

The same is true for children like Senator Ted Cruz who born in Canada and Senator John McCain who was born in Panama. That is why they are eligible to become US President despite the Natural born restriction for candidate for US Presidency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural...citizen_clause

[Don1]

No my learned friend. Under Chapter of the Jamaica Constitution is not required to be naturalized because he was a citizen the moment that he popped out of his mother, i.e. at birth i.e. by birth.

Your post is inaccurate

The boy is not formally Jamaican...He's merely able to claim for Jamaican citizenship by descent...once he applies

[Islandman]

That is my understanding as well. However I think the article is overstating the "red tape" involved for a situation such as this. Robbie Earl made it sound pretty straightforward for the UB40s in his book. They went to the Jamaican embassy and signed some papers, more or less.

[Mosiah]

Not just that. Bolt was 16 when he set his Champs 200 and 400 metre records. By the time Bolt was Hughes' age he was running 19.93 in the 2.

Pity he didn't run the 100 in those days.

[Willi]

Actually it WAS accurate. A child born to a Jamaican father legally married was automatically Jamaican. This was later extended to women and unmarried parents. To make it "fair" for all, they changed the rules to force all to formally apply for citizenship by descent.

I know this as it applies in my case. They said that while this was legally true for my daughter, she still had to procedurally apply like all the other categories. Dem standardize di thing.

[Willi]

That is all it is...along with providing parents' surfitikit (and paying some dallaz)! LoL

[Mosiah]

I guess y'all were the ones saying Bolt will be a flop when he jogged in last in that world championship 200m race. And that he can't stay with Puma after winning in Beijing if he wants to make money, and that he can't live Jamaica anymore, etc., etc.?