Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have approved Jamaican jurist Justice Winston Anderson as the next president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), succeeding Justice Adrian Saunders...
The Jamaican government is set to introduce a referendum bill in Parliament, providing citizens with an opportunity to participate in the nation’s constitutional reform process. Custos...
Jamaica’s Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, who also chairs the Joint Select Committee reviewing the Constitution (Amendment) Republic Bill, has emphasized the...
Jamaica’s Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, has announced plans to table the Constitutional Reform Bill as early as next week. Speaking in...
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has appointed Jamaican-born jurist Winston Anderson to act as President of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Mitchell,...
Trinidad & Tobago continues to grapple with the question of whether it should embrace full membership in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), with divergent opinions...
The St. Lucia Parliament has approved the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final and highest court, replacing the London-based Privy Council. All 13 government...
The Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) says it regards itself as a prime example of Caribbean ingenuity as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) celebrates...
The president of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Adrian Saunders, Tuesday welcomed St. Lucia as a full member of the regional court...
St. Lucia on Tuesday signaled its intention to become the fifth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to have full membership of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court...
Transition advisory committee to oversee what is being regarded as the most serious phase of systematically decolonizing the country since independence in 1966
The Portia Simpson-Miller administration in Jamaica says debate on the 3 bills allowing for the island-nation to adopt the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice...
Jamaica is now closer to having the Caribbean Court of Justice as its final court of appeal – one step closer to Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller’s...
Legislators in Jamaica will vote on three bills which seek to amend existing legislation to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) replace the United Kingdom-based...
Dominica has become the fourth Caribbean Community (Caricom) country to replace the London-based Privy Council as their final court of appeal, replacing it with the Trinidad-based...
Dominica will become the fourth Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country to become a full member of the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice early next month,...
Jamaica’s parliament will decide on April 28, whether or not the country should replace the Judicial Committee of the UK-based Privy Council with the Trinidad &...
Barbados plans to abolish its mandatory death penalty for murder convictions – a penalty that the government has bypassed for three decades. No killer has been...
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has revealed that Britain agrees and has no objection to Dominica recognizing the Caribbean Court of Justice as its final appellate...
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago – the two largest economies in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), have signed an agreement outlining a path to improve free trade...
Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago have resumed their talks on Tuesday aimed at settling an immigration matter that had threatened to escalate to a trade war...
Law makers in Jamaica will soon begin a debate on the island-nation’s potential accession to the regional Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and thus disengaging with...
Dominica says it has written to the United Kingdom government informing it officially of its intention to cut ties with the London-based Privy Council in favor...
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that St. Lucia does not require a referendum before becoming a full member of the Trinidad &...
Grenada will hold a referendum in the next two years to decide on the island-nation’s relationship with the Trinidad & Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),...
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says he intends to write to the United Kingdom later this month indicating Dominica’s intent to sever...
The ruling People’s National Party (PNP) government of Jamaica and the parliamentary Opposition (Jamaica Labor Party – JLP) remain on a collision course over the planned...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller with Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/Ranu Abhelakh/Reuters Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Saturday urged her...
Jamaica has taken a major step toward making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) it’s final appelate court. Leader of the House of Representatives Phillip Paulwell...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government have agreed that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will be the final appellate court for the region. This was...
Jamaicans could bid farewell to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by the end of the parliamentary year. Governor General Sir Patrick Allen said an...
The President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Sir Dennis Byron, today said regional countries should “complete their independence and sovereignty by claiming the rights...
A referendum on replacing the Queen as Jamaica’s head of state could take place sooner rather than later. Jamaica’s prime minister has said she wants her...
Chief Justice Hugh Rawlins. PHOTO/File Hugh Anthony Rawlins, Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, has announced his resignation, effective August 1. The native of...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller has indicated that the country will will be moving to sign on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its...
Legal team looking into the matter after the airline was forced to lower ticket prices because of stiff competition from CAL.
