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Participation of Citizens is Key to Success of Law Reforms

Contact: Claudia Monlouis

Tracey Robinson - Attorney at Law, Lecturer Cave Hill Campus

Tuesday, February 03, 2004 - “Veranda Pontificating” will no longer suffice as the winds of political change and law reform are sweeping the OECS; in fact, the time has come for civil society to do more to influence reform initiatives, which are ongoing in St. Lucia and many other OECS and Commonwealth territories. This perspective was stressed by Attorney at Law and Lecturer Tracy Robinson, guest speaker at the biennial general meeting of the St. Lucia Crisis Centre held on Saturday January 31st at the Indies Conference Centre. Robinson spoke on the topic “We the People in the 21st century, facing the crisis and securing justice: A vision for the St. Lucia Crisis Centre.” She called on the St. Lucia Crisis Centre to feel the need to act politically.

She said, “the Crisis Centre is well placed to speak to matters of development in St. Lucia and to take its place in the collective, deliberative, active intervention in all fate. Some aspects of your intervention must be private and confidential; especially those carried out through your counselling committee but many others I urge must be public and must contain that element which I call political.”

She called on all citizens to participate in the reformation of St. Lucia’s constitution saying, “The Commonwealth Caribbean now more than any other time since independence is taken up with constitutional reform. Nothing hitherto comes close to the single mindedness of the last decade of many different elements in the region about the need to rethink the existing constitutional arrangements. Almost every single independent Commonwealth Caribbean country has entered the 21st century contemplating or engaged in some structured process of constitutional reform.”

In the midst of this reform, Robinson advised that citizens be alert to what is happening with the reform process to ensure their voices are represented.

 

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