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The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has said it is not yet prepared to vote on the legislation making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the island’s highest court replacing the London-based Privy Council. “Let us set a timeline of 12 months,” Opposition Senator Dr Christopher Tufton told legislators on Friday, dashing any hopes […]

Jamaica – Jamaica House: Yes, CCJ
KINGSTON –– Earlier Tuesday afternoon, the Lower House of the Jamaican Parliament secured the favourable majority vote required to have that country access the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) appellate jurisdiction. The three bills laid before the House of Representatives will now proceed to the Senate. The three bills in question are: an act to amend […]
Jamaica votes ‘yes’ for CCJ
Earlier this afternoon, the Lower House of the Jamaican Parliament secured the favorable majority vote required to have that country access the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) Appellate Jurisdiction. The three bills laid before the House of Representatives will now proceed to the Senate. They are: an Act to Amend the Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction) Act, an […]
Shanique Myrie threatens to head back to CCJ
Frustrated by the failure of the Barbadian government to comply with a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling in her favour, Shanique Myrie says she intends to file a complaint before the court on the matter. Myrie had earlier this week complained that she was becoming impatient with the Barbadian state’s flagrant disregard for the […]
Bajans flood CCJ
by Emmanuel Joseph Barbadians are “flooding” the eight year old Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice with substantially more appeals per year than they did under the now scrapped British Privy Council, as their final appellate tribunal. In an interview with Barbados TODAY in the spacious and luxurious office of his Port of Spain headquarters, President […]
Out with Myrie
By Emmanuel Joseph in Port of Spain Barbados today urged the Caribbean Court of Justice to throw out the entire evidence of the Jamaican woman who is seeking over a million dollars in damages from this country, for alleged degrading, inhumane and discriminatory treatment, if the court found her to be untruthful in any one […]
Decision in three months
After just over a year of taking evidence, testimony from 22 witnesses and visits to two other CARICOM states outside of its 134 Henry Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad headquarters, the Caribbean Court of Justice concluded the case which Jamaican Shanique Myrie brought against Barbados for alleged inhumane, degrading and discriminatory treatment at Grantley Adams […]
Officer was ‘right’
by Emmanuel Joseph in Port of Spain Barbados is pinning the success of its case against Jamaican Shanique Myrie on if the Caribbean Court of Justice finds Myrie was undesirable and if senior immigration officer, Merlo Reid did not act capriciously or irrationally in revoking her entry into the country on March 14, 2011. This […]
Myrie wants millions
Just over a million dollars in damages. That is what Michelle Brown, the attorney for Jamaican, Shanique Myrie is asking the Caribbean Court of Justice to award her client for her alleged inhumane and degrading treatment at the hands of Barbadian border officials at Grantley Adams International Airport on March 14, 2011. Addressing the CCJ […]
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