Overview:

• Recognition and registration are amalgamated rather than ideally differentiated; a focus is placed on legal registration with few to no provisions for existential recognition; only a semblance of recognition is made available for groups through their exemption from taxation.

Positive elements:

• Freedom of religion or belief is generally upheld by the government.

Recommendations:

• To become receptive, establish a revitalised recognition system that can provide both existential recognition in addition to legal registration simultaneously, to all belief systems and their derivatives, and at different levels of recognition.

• To become dynamic, establish a recognition agency that has the capacity to manage the re-established recognition system in a way that is independent of the government.

• Ongoing discrimination levied towards Rastafarians and Muslims are issues that should be resolved through greater religious education and mutual recognition.