“It became apparent that [the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda] is a difficult document to read and if you pick up the constitution you will have a problem with it,” expressed Frantz DeFreitas, Director of the Antiguans and Barbudans for Constitutional Reform and Education (ABCRE) forum last evening at the Multipurpose Cultural Center at Perry Bay.
The ABCRE director was addressing members of the public at a town hall meeting last night.
“What we decided to do is to create a curriculum for civics so that children starting at the primary school level would be able to understand all elements of the Constitution,” DeFreitas went on.
The group has already put together a committee and are in the process of working on the content for that curriculum they hope to soon present to the Ministry of Education for inclusion into the school program of studies.
“What we are hoping is that when we are finished drafting this document that when we are finished that it will be included in the education system of Antigua and Barbuda so that every child in primary and secondary school would be able to understand it.”
Defreitas further advanced that, “maybe we can look at a modified constitution for children that can be simplified just like you have a modified Bible you will get a modified constitution so that the parents can read it to their children as a bedtime story so that we can make them good good good citizens of Antigua and Barbuda.”
Antigua and Barbuda’s Constitution has never been amended since being enacted in 1981. ABCRE’s chairman, Ralph Bowen, offered that, “We rarely get things correct the first time.”
“In our case, with the Constitution… is an act of the British Parliament.”
“If our Constitution is to be the soul of our nation then it to reflect the soul of its people.”
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