Saturday, June 15, 2013

SAINT LUCIA AND THE CCJ…Do it right; let the people decide!

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Stop your pessimism.

June 15, 2013 at 3:01 PM
Anonymous said...

For once, I can say that I fully agree with Josie. Perhaps, only just this once.

A plebiscite is the most democratic option, if and only if, this administration, which right now which appears to openly hostile to the population and its future, matches its promise of transparency and accountability with deeds, for once.

Just once.

June 15, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Anonymous said...

Kenny likes to screw the Constitution...remember Grynberg?

June 15, 2013 at 10:51 PM
Anonymous said...

Will no one address the fact that greasing the palms of politicians and other higher-ups is not considered unethical in Asian countries such as Taiwan? Grafting isn't frowned upon, but rather encouraged. If it goes against the laws and customs of SLU, then the GOSL must indicate as much, and dictate/alter the terms of engagement.

June 15, 2013 at 11:30 PM
Anonymous said...

If the CCJ becomes the final arbiter, will the post of "supreme court" judge become permanent? Since most of our politicians are drawn from the legal fraternity--because, well, I suspect voters have a thing for manipulative orators--I shudder at the plausibility for abuse of such a system.

June 16, 2013 at 5:18 AM
Anonymous said...

Did you up there know that it is accepted INTERNATIONAL practice, that whenever you interface with another culture or country, you abide by that country's cultural norms?

OK. Here is another fact for you. Let's put it in terms of a question:

What is the commonality between, England, USA, Canada (except Quebec), Australia, New Zealand, and the Bahamas and other Caribbean and African but English-speaking or Anglophone countries?

Answer: They belong to a cultural cluster.

They have in common known established norms, institutions and customs stemming colonization.

One significant thread running through those countries or cultures is THE RULE OF LAW and legal precedent based on English law.

Therefore, the Taiwanese ambassador should have KNOWN and should have respected international protocol and not flout what should have been our cultural norms.

Or is there an even LARGER question?

Did the Taiwanese PERCEIVE that Saint Lucia's culture of BORBOLISM and KOKO-MARKAKISM was so ENTRENCHED, that our acceptance of malfeasance more than not, MORE CLOSELY mirrored theirs and this NOW made the indictment in the Blum-Cooper findings, HIGHLY IRRELEVANT?

If this is the conclusion to be drawn, it all points to the kinds of rogue administrations and the marauding MPs that the society has deified and repeatedly ELECTED, like our adorable and honourable slime-balls, scumbags, liars, cheats, ex-cons and drug barons. In other words, the menagerie called the UWP.

June 16, 2013 at 5:51 AM
Anonymous said...

Let the people vote!

June 16, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Anonymous said...

On what basis should the people vote? Are our decisions based on fact or emotionalism or politics or "I-just-think-it-is-right-ism" or "it-is-my-perception"?

The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has established that the constitution provides no room for a referendum in order to join the CCJ! Now, that doesn't mean that the "government" cannot have a referendum, if it wants to.

Now, I know people have concerns about the contamination of CCJ judges by politicians . . . and by extension the justice system. But, I do declare that there is a measure of injustice with the Privy Council. The injustice is that the poor person is not able to pay for lawers, travel, living expenses, etc. For us, the fact is the Privy counsel is for the RICH!

Another point, I believe, we have missed is the fact that the Privy Counsel DO NOT WANT US!. Please read this article found on this BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2009/09/090922_privyccjphillips.shtml

In my opinion the idea of the CCJ is a noble one which of course will be of great benefit to us, Caribbean countries as the final arbiter of jurisprudence. But political leaders within the region has used all means in an attempt to thwart, slow the process, and other means to obstruct the march of true independence. Well, guess what, it is going to happen whether we like it or not.

The same way we thought our nostalgic ties to the UK would save our bananas is the same way our nostalgic ties would save jurisprudence in the region. The banana industry was not saved despite all the attempts by politicians' to pronounce differently. The Privy Counsel will NOT SAVE US!

June 16, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Anonymous said...

Guess what? The 20 percent unemployed and the remaining underemployed have NO greater chance of improving the scales of justice under the CCJ. Chances are the quality of decisions might just be worse.

Already some East Indian justices in TNT have already verbalized that they cannot find someone guilty, if that person is of their own ethnic group. Get such people on the benches of an Appellate Court and figure where latent racism will find the CCJ.

I believe that the OECS can leverage the bickering to develop its own Supreme Court.

Compton had a vested interest in a mythical banana industry. With his own inertia and resistance to change, he was unable see an economic future anywhere past his own abbreviated shinny nose. Man, you can do better than this. Stop comparing apples with oranges.

June 16, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...

Kenny Anthony is not held in any positive light overseas. And that is a fact.

There are questions marks all over him.

June 17, 2013 at 8:58 AM
Anonymous said...

And the menagerie called the Saint Lucia Labour Party. That's a much better fit. Don't you see. Or is it that you do not see clearly.

June 17, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Anonymous said...

To be or not to be? That is the question. The menagerie exists where?

The swallowed crock, it bit right through the side of the mighty python. The crocodile survived long afterwards, and long enough to bury the mighty python -- in national colours.

Wait for the duplicity.

Then the animals in the menagerie all cried with streaming crocodile tears.

June 20, 2013 at 12:30 PM

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