Shahine Elizabeth Fakhourie Robinson is a Jamaica Labour Party politician currently serving as the Minister of Labour and Social Security. She is a member of the Parliament of Jamaica for North East Saint Ann. She served briefly as the Transport and Works Minister from late November 2011 to January 2012.Before entering politics, Robinson worked in the banking and tourism sectors. She had been involved at the margins of politics for almost two decades as a JLP supporter, and was tapped by then-Leader of the Opposition Edward Seaga to do more work during Michael Belnavis' leave of absence. She was first elected to Parliament after the resignation of People's National Party MP Danny Melville in 2001, defeating the PNP's Carol Jackson in the resulting by-election. She naturalised as a U.S. citizen in 2006, while sitting in Parliament. However, the following year, she handed back her U.S. passport at an Immigration and Naturalization Service office in Key Biscayne, Florida in advance of the Jamaican general election, 2007, stating that she believed this constituted renunciation of U.S. citizenship. She went on to defeat PNP candidate Oswest Senior-Smith in that election by 2,022 votes. Wikipedia
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