Politics
Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister seeks to Abolish Privy Council appeals in Criminal Matters
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister.,Kamla Persad Bissessar
Trinidad and Tobago’s government will be introducing legislation to abolish Privy Council appeals in all criminal matters, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced in a statement to Parliament Wednesday.
All of those cases would be ceded to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
On February 14, 2001, the agreement establishing the CCJ was signed by Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago to be followed in 2003 by Dominica and St Vincent and the Grenadines. Altogether, 12 signatories.
On April 16, 2005, the CCJ was inaugurated at a ceremony in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
The CCJ has two jurisdictions: an original and an appellate jurisdiction.
