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People don’t have faith in the local masters who took over from the Whites

Jul 18, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is not often that I am  in agreement with my friend, Freddie Kissoon. But in his column (KN Jul 10), Freddie correctly penned that an opinion survey in Jamaica showed that Jamaicans prefer to remain attached to the Queen as their head of state via an appointed Governor (who is appointed upon the recommendation of the party in government).
Surveys and votes in other independent countries and colonies show people prefer to remain attached to their current or former colonial power. People don’t have faith in the local masters who took over from the Whites after independence. I have traveled to dozens of former colonies.
It was shocking to hear peoples’ views that life under colonial subjugation was better than under independent status. It is just an indication of how much people feel degradation of life has taken place since the White man gave freedom to their possessions.
In surveys I did in Trinidad, large majorities of people want T&T to retain the Privy Council as their Final court of Appeal and many would prefer to return to colonial rule.
People have no faith in local institutions. Also, large majorities prefer to have the Queen, rather than a President, as their head of state in T&T.
In Guyana, similar surveys showed people preferred the British imposed constitution of 1966 rather than the fraudulent constitution of 1980 and they yearn to return to White man rule and the Privy Council rather than stick to the Caribbean Court of Appeal.
It should be noted that in virtually no country were the people asked or have they given their assent to the CCJ as their final court of appeal.  Also, in no independent country were the people given a vote if they wished independence.
A referendum held in St. Vincent showed a large majority rejecting the proposal to break with the English Crown and the Privy Council.  In Bermuda, voters rejected independence repeatedly in votes.
The same is true in the Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, British Virgin Islands, Monsterrat, etc. Puerto Ricans rejected independence in several votes and also turned down referendums to become a state of the US, preferring to remain a kind of a Commonwealth colony.
Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, St. Martin and other Dutch Antilles islands have also rejected full independence even though Holland wants to get rid of the burden of providing for them.
The same is true of St. Martin, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc. and other French Antillean islands, all of which want to remain attached to the colonizer, the imperialists that we were taught to despise and who it has turned out had treated us far better than the local rulers in former colonized societies.
Only in Singapore, Malaysia, and a few other former colonies are people pleased with their independence rulers. In most cases, they are worse off.
In India, large numbers of Indians prefer to return to British rule because of the institutionalization of corruption since the white man departed the land.  And almost every African citizen has given up hope on their rulers raising their standard of living, preferring instead if the colonizer can return and save them from their own failed leaders.
Local rulers in virtually all former colonies need to do a better job to win the confidence of their subjects.  Measures need to be taken to improve standard of living and end corruption.
Vishnu Bisram

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