Is the government preparing a top post in the islands Customs Department for Danville Walker, the former director of elections?  Efforts to find out from Walker if the reports were true, failed, as his telephone rang without an answer.  

Walker quit as director of elections after admitting under cross-examination that he was a US citizen, which forbids him to hold the post of director of elections under existing laws.

Arising from the fact that Walker was called as a witness to support Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate, Daryl Vaz in the latters dual citizenship case, critics argue that it was perceived that the reported offer to Walker was an attempt to compensate him for his loss consequent to the outcome of his court appearance.

Walkers admission was made during testimony in the election petition case between Peoples National Party (PNP) candidate, Abe Dabdoub, and JLP candidate, Daryl Vaz.  As a result of the petition, Vaz, who triumphed at the September 3, 2007 polls, was disqualified from holding the post of Member of Parliament for West Portland, on the grounds that he was a US citizen.

By describing as gimmickry Dabdoubs efforts to inform the voters of the disqualification of various candidates, including Vaz, ahead of the elections, Walkers action was widely seen as political interference in the electoral system.  Trial judge, Chief Justice Zalia McCalla, relied on the gimmickry statement from Walker in not awarding the seat to Dabdoub.

Walker also admitted under cross-examination that he had borrowed a bike from Vaz for his son some time prior to the elections.

Walker quit his post on May 5, after the court disqualified Vaz.
 The court matter of Dabdoub vs. Vaz has determined that a person simply holding a United States of America (USA) passport, renewed when over 18 years of age, would be an acknowledgement of allegiance, and, as the USA is considered a foreign power, my holding that countrys passport would cause me to be disqualified from holding the post of the Director of Elections, Walker said in a statement.