The current effort by the Government of Anguilla towards constitutional development is a matter of continuing interest on the island. In view of this, The Anguillian, in cooperation with the Social Security Board, will be publishing, over the coming few weeks, in serial form, a paper delivered by Dame Bernice Lake, DGGN, Q.C. at the 8th Annual Walter G. Hodge Memorial Lecture in June this year. The first installment of that lecture follows:
Throughout the region, which we know as the Eastern Caribbean States, there is a shared evolution from the classification of colonial territory to that of emergent democratic nation states. That process has been evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and, for that reason, our sense of nationalism is not as frenzied and fanatical as those nation states who have come through the cauldron and crucible of armed conflict with their colonial masters.