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Prensa Latina, Cuba

United Nations, May 20 (Prensa Latina)

Caribbean peoples fighting for their self-determination now face deliberate distortions of their real condition, verified a recently concluded UN regional seminar.

Representatives from different islands made complaints and demands during the annual meeting of the United Nations (UN) Decolonization Committee, celebrated on Anuan Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Walton Brown, an expert from Bermuda, one of 8 remaining colonies in the Caribbean, said that the United Kingdom, as administrative power, wants to link Bermuda to the European Union without the consensus of the population, and without conceding greater political rights.

He said that there is a need for a higher education level to demystify the language used by the colonists, who want to eradicate the concept of colony or dependent territory from the minds of the populations.

For his part, Howard Fergus, from Montserrat, said that the United Kingdom unilaterally applies the requisites of its proclaimed "White Paper" on the future of its colonies: Anguilla, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and Saint Helena & Dependencies.

In the case of the US Virgin Islands, their future statute is under public discussion, according to Judith Bourne of the local UN association.

While the US often talks about possible integration with the US, Virgin Islands natives are barred from participating in national elections.

Trapped in such ambiguities, the colonial countries every time demand more exercise of self-determination, against a problematic background of colonial domination that continues to hinder their progress in the present century.