Academics To Discuss Bermuda Independence
Bermuda’ status as a British Overseas Territory will be the subject of high-level academic discussion in Curacao next month, the Caribbean Studies Association [CSA] announced today [May 25].
Under the title “Unfinished Decolonisation: Proposals and Uncertainties in the Non-Independent Territories of the Caribbean,” panellists will present scholarly papers on the range of political status options available to the small island non self-governing territories.
The meeting will examine how present self-governing arrangements of Independence, free association and integration actually operate in practice.
Specific attention will be paid to the present political dependency status of the six British Overseas Territories of the Caribbean/Atlantic region, in particular Bermuda, Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands Montserrat, British Virgin Islands and Anguilla.
The conference will convene from June 30 to July 4 at the World Trade Centre in Curacao. The panel will be chaired by professor of the University of Puerto Rico Dr. Aaron Gamiel Ramos.
The role of the United Nations in the decolonisation process of island territories will be examined in a second paper, “An Assessment of the Implementation of the International Decolonisation Mandate”, to be presented by Dr. Carlyle Corbin, international advisor on governance, former US Virgin Islands minister for external affairs and United Nations expert.
Dr. Corbin will also make a presentation on ”Identity in Non-Independent States.”
The Caribbean Studies Association [CSA] is an independent professional organization devoted to the promotion of Caribbean studies from a multidisciplinary, multicultural point of view.
It is the primary association for scholars and practitioners working on the Caribbean region. Its members come from the Caribbean, North America, South America, Central America, Europe and elsewhere. The CSA was founded in 1974 by 300 Caribbeanists and now has over 1100 members.
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This is beyond weird. It is no secret “how present self-governing arrangements of independence, free association and integration actually operate in practice.” Don’t these guys have something better to talk about? Like how dependent territories are to co-exist with the emergence of a growing EU.
This is what is known as a junket. An opportunity for quango and government types to travel, spend money, and justify it with some photo opps that they then spin out to their local media as a way of saying ‘look how important this all was’. A Third World Wheeze. No doubt Bermuda will have a big contingent.
AND speaking of wheezes, what can our Premier and Dame Jennifer be doing that is remotely important to this island in Rome this week?
1) It refers to us as Non-Self Governing – we are self governing. We have our own government that makes the laws for the country. The laws of the UK are not the laws of Bermuda.
2) Anybody else notice how the the “Dependant” Territories are the wealthiest countries in the region.
Tell that to all the PLP nationalistic idiots.