What the diaspora is saying about Jamaica constitutional reform: Forum Outcome Ambassador Curtis A. Ward The Jamaican diaspora deliberately or inadvertently omitted by Prime Minister Andrew Holness when he named the Constitution Reform Committee to undertake an historic review of the Jamaican constitution invoked great disappointment and dissatisfaction within Jamaican diaspora communities across the world. A plethora of voices in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, where...

Imperative considerations for a New Jamaican Constitution: What the Diaspora is Saying about Constitutional Reform Franklin W. Knight, PhD By writing a constitution in 1776, the United States of America pioneered the concept of a codified way in which political states establish themselves and organize their administration. But it was also a way in which successive new states expressed their highest ideals as well as a sense of self. Those ideals and self-consciousness are fundamental...