DEAR EDITOR:
Our Courts are the last Colonial bastion to be broken, freeing the remnants of the Slave Trade, and all that has ensued through Colonialism and quasi-independence. How can the slaver and their attendant rulers, the Throne of England, be still in charge of ‘justice’ when all of our troubles from kidnapping, to cruel enslavement and exploitation of our people and resources continues relentlessly to this day?
The lawyers and the judges caught up in the trappings of the colonizer, and the pontification of the English language, like mimic men and women, continue to parade in their hot black gowns in the tropical heat, metering out their concept of UK laws and justice to the few who can afford a judge.
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Playing their part in the deception, the lawyers ( baby judges) diligently write their long papers, deposit them in the dusty registry for 2-3 years, collect 50% of the fees and move on to the next matter. They have forgotten that lawyering came about when a few men of valor saw the injustice to the poor and rose to help them without charge. The poor caused that little pocket on the back of the gown to be retained for their gratitude of pennies.
The majority of our broad based poor has little access to justice, and their pockets cannot reach higher than the Magistrate’s Court. Even there the poor are often kept months and years to get heard, and eventual decisions are often cockeyed, as Magistrates usually comprise lawyers who have not made it in their private practices. In recent times, many judges are often from that compassionate selection process.
We in the English speaking Caribbean have been left in this dilemma where the people want justice, but the Governments are connected to an old and foreign system of justice that does not serve the people.
In the British Commonwealth, the former colonies like Canada and the USA, Australia & New Zealand, being of British stock their acceptance of the UK laws and systems of dispensing justice fits their racial and historical background, so they confidently reform and make regulatory changes as they have developed, thereby satisfying the growing needs of their population.
In Africa and India where the British ravaged and took over nations and peoples as ‘Brittania ruled the waves’ they did not leave their people stripped of their culture, language, and traditional laws and Courts. So, the poor and disenfranchised managed to retain their justice systems for the poor, leaving the British Court system for the ‘been to’ and those who wish to appear cultured with the oppressors’ wigs and gowns. Traditional Courts in Africa and India continue to administer justice to those whose faith in their own people and local systems remain constant.
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This is denied to us in the Caribbean whose cruel laws of an oppressive UK slaver, colonizer and greedy kingdom still holds sway over our justice. The time for total independence has come a long time, but the fear of leaving the plantation has our leaders paralyzed, as the conflicts of politics continue the Divide & Rule concepts of domination set in place four hundred years ago.
Justice Quest
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