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MEMORAM DUM

From:

The U.W.I. Resident Tutor

To:

His Excellency, The Governor

c.c.:

Date:

Hon. J.A. Osborne, Chief Minister

Hon. J. Dublin, Minister of Education September 19, 1980

PROPOSED SEMINAR ON ALTERNATIVES TO INDEPENDENCE

The Institute of International Relations, V.W.I., has expressed its willingness to team up with the Extra-Mural Centre to mount a Seminar (say 3 to 5 days) on the subject of Alternatives to Independence. You will recall that I represented Montserrat at a regional seminar held by this Institution and presented a paper on the Economic and Political Profile of

Montserrat.

It will be very valuable I think, to hear the views of Caribbean scholars on some of the constitutional alternatives

It should also be useful to expose which are open to Montserrat. politicians, senior civil servants and informed citizens to the thinking of the academic and exchange views with them on a matter

of vital interest.

I am seeking your initial reactions to the idea before

Your blessings we proceed to draw up plans for the seminar. and participation and the interest of the Civil Service are necessary for the success of such a seminar.

This may appear

to inform and

to be an intellectual exercise, but it can serve to enlighten Government's plans for Montserrat's constitutional

future.

(Sgd.) Howard A. Fergus

Resident Tutor.