Jamaica's Constitutional Reform and Citizen's Rights to Self Determination

It is imperative that we Jamaicans understand constitutional reform to mean socioeconomic reform and a greater step toward human development, which our current constitution failed to deliver. Thus, we must state our desire to break free from colonially induced poverty and tribalist traps derived from the constitution ordered in council 1962. This book seeks to highlight the fact that the current constitution given to us by Britain only serves to coerce us into selecting one dictator after another and does not allow our participation in organs of human development in our society. As a result, our country operates on the brink of chaos and social decline, with savagery toward each other the accepted social norm while our leaders enforce the entrenched will of financial cartels such as the IMF and the World Bank. This book further seeks to lay the foundation for intellectual honesty to the fallacy we have come to accept as democracy, knowing that we have a duty toward each other to secure and preserve dignity amongst our families within communities and preserve a progressive, civilized culture as a nation. Therefore, we cannot surrender to the degrading of our intellect to accept the argument that we, as citizens, are totally incapable of participating in our political and socioeconomic restructuring and must totally surrender to the dictate of the political establishment. We owe it to ourselves to do better than our current political arrangements afford us. We must be allowed to participate in political restructuring for our benefit through wholesome participation of our citizens both at home and in the diaspora. And we must seek to do so by establishing a constitution by the people for the people, with defining lines of separations of power between the branches of government and between the central government and the local government.