The New St. Lucia Model

About the Book

The New St. Lucia Model provides a rare glimpse into the future where the collective desire of the people of St. Lucia, both at home and within the wider St. Lucian diaspora, to push their country beyond the boundaries of fate has resulted in St. Lucia greeting the year 2020 one of the more developed countries of the Caribbean – a successful model of a Social Revolution for similar resource-deprived countries based on a simple-to-follow 10-Point Plan.

The New St. Lucia Model is, therefore, a mantra for the Social transformation of St. Lucia – a stimulating political project which is part of the evolution of change which promises to empower the people to influence and participate in the most profound change in the history of St. Lucia since Emancipation – in a very exciting way!

The basic postulation of this book is that, hierarchical, centralized, bureaucratic systems designed in the post-colonial era of Caribbean politics of the mid-20th century are an anachronism in the information-rich and knowledge-intensive society of the 21st century. Therefore, Caribbean government and politics have to be re-invented for a post-modern society.

The New St. Lucia Model advocates the complete overhaul (and in some cases total jettisoning) of many of our hitherto sacred colonially inherited political institutions to the point that they may even lose some of their traditional meanings and significance: the Monarchy, the Executive, the Legislature, the Civil Service, the Political Parties, Local Government, Regional Integration – in short, much of the unworkable and increasingly unpopular apparatus of supposedly Lockean-type representative government otherwise known as the “Westminster Model”.

About the Author

The author is an attorney-at-law who has written extensively on social, political, economic and constitutional issues in St. Lucia. A staunch defender of human rights – a quality for which he has constantly received criticism from unsympathetic St. Lucians – he is recognized as one of the few practicing attorneys in St. Lucia who would fearlessly – some would say foolhardily – challenge any body or organization (including Governments) for what he deemed an infringement of those rights.

He is regarded as perhaps the foremost constitutional lawyer in St. Lucia. It is with such expertise he was able to craft the New St. Lucia Model, which advocates fundamental political and constitutional changes as the sine qua non or first step towards poverty eradication and social transformation in St. Lucia.