Jawge what are your thoughts on this video

[Don1]

that's easy to circumvent...juss rent one room an yuh noice

[Reggaedoc]

Agree with you Jawge. How can we expect to change the constitution in a country where judges still follow their masters by wearing wigs when it is 96 deg in the shade?. After 50 years, still a plantocracy, only less functional.

[Assasin]

too easily bypassed. Once you have address, own a house, it doesn't matter if you live there yes or no.

I remember on village where 6 people running for mayor and only one or two lived there, but they all had addresses with the district itself. Sounds good but it not practical. These politican find a way around it.

[Historian]

But Jawge....

Ja 's independence was hurriedly put together by an elite few ; who were only looking out for themselves. Ja's highest court is abroad, the citizens are still under educated.

But Jawge, I have to interject here, and I can assure you that my comment now is NOT a defense of the framers of the Jamaica constitution. However, it is not fair to blame the framers of our constitution for deciding back in 1961 that the UK based Privy Council would be our highest court!

The fact is that EVERY one of the former British colonies in the Caribbean made the Privy Council their highest court when their constitutions were being put together! It is only within the past few years that three CARICOM states -- Guyana, Barbados and Belize -- have made the necessary changes to their constitutions thereby enabling the Caribbean Court of Justice to be their highest court.

So, Jamaica’s failure is NOT that the Privy Council was embedded in the constitution, because everyone did that. The failure is the fact that in 2012 we still have this court as our highest judicial body. Despitethe fact that the Privy Council would welcome a move away from them, Jamaica has talked and talked but has not moved away from the Privy Council.

Also, what does the constitution have to do with the poor education of Jamaica’s citizens? That doesn’t necessarily need a constitutional change, as has been seen in the period of free education starting in 1974.

[Exile]

What's wrong with those exports? Once they weren't stolen. They all contribute to the economy. Just have to add some more....

[Exile]

Supreme law of the land my ass...how many representatives ACTUALLY live in their home state...

[Islandman]

So lick out on ALL of them then! You are the one who pushes the silly idea that Portia somehow cares for the lower class of people more than most other Jamaican politicians. Well maybe she does and maybe she doesn't, what is certain is that she has done little to change the situation for the lower class of people that she represents in the 3 decades she has been there.

Anyway gwan cuss the planter class for all our problems. I suspect they will always be around so we will always have an excuse to underachieve.

[Islandman]

Problem is our scrap metal industry was out of control with thieving of private and public property.

[Exile]

I know..hence the disclaimer -'once they weren't stolen'. What is the status with that industry now?

[Jawge]

Boss that's not part of the US constitution.

[Jawge]

You are only endorsing my point. Ja just followed what others did or conformed. It was not thought out in the manner to build a nation. The weakness of the parliamentary system is that it concentrates power one place (aping the monarchy). The Us on the other hand wanted to distance themselves from from any form of monarchy or power concentrated in one place (check the first ten amendments called the bill of rights)checks and balances via the three branches of govt. (separation of powers, ensures this) Their concern was rights, liberty of the the people. All US laws are based on the constitution, the day the constitution is suspended in america it's time to leave.

BTW it's written in the constitution that us should be one of informed citizens.

Oh now you want to talk about Joshua's revolutionary approach in the 70s? Why were those policies eroded?. This comes about because Ja has no real frame of reference in terms of supreme laws. Ja is right back to living as if it were the days of slavery.