Who are we, asks Prakash Persad.

Prakash Persad in his weekly Guardian column says "Constitutional change is, ostensibly, being “debated” in the islands of T&T. Ceremonial president versus executive president, first past the post versus proportional representation and various other issues are being considered, all with the aim of finding the form of government suitable for us. The odd thing is that, to date, nobody has characterised “us.” Lest the point is trivialised, it should be pointed out that a nation is usually defined as “a community of people of mainly common descent, history, language and culture inhabiting a territory.” Implicit in the definition is the concept of homogeneity."

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