Author : Martinus Francois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425179908
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (799 download)
Book Synopsis The New St. Lucia Model by : Martinus Francois
Download or read book The New St. Lucia Model written by Martinus Francois and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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”.