Decolonization is a process by which nation-states reduce their dependency on institutions, structures and processes imposed, copied or inherited from the colonial experience. The ultimate aim is to fashion such to reflect the local realities. The process is a complex exercise varying in length, character and prone to a number of challenges, distractions, resistance and set-backs. Sometimes initiatives have to be undertaken by visionary leadership moving ahead of the general edification of the populace. A failure to satisfy expectations invariably gives rise to calls for the return to the “good ole days”. The Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition has described the current debate on replacing the Privy Council (PC) with the Caribbean Court Of Justice (CCJ) as Jamaica’s final appellate court as a “ distraction”. The general reason given is that it shifts the national attention from d...