CIVIC SOCIETY AND LAW OFFICERS DISCUSS CCJ

The Attorneys General and Ministers of Legal Affairs of Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), participating in the Sixth Special Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee in Georgetown, will meet with a cross-section of the Guyanese society in the evening of Wednesday, 24 January, 2001 in a panel discussion on the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

The discussion session is slated to start at 7p.m. in the Savannah Suite of the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, and is expected to attract members of the legal fraternity, law students of the University of Guyana, the Media and a number of civic groups and the business community.

The panelists will include Senator, the Hon. Arnold Nicholson, Attorney General of Jamaica and Deputy Chairman of the Preparatory Committee working on the establishment of the Caribbean CCJ; The Hon. Bernard Wiltshire, Attorney General of Dominica; the Hon. Petrus Compton, Attorney General of Saint Lucia; Senator, the Hon. Lawrence Joseph , Attorney General of Grenada; and the Hon. Charles Ramson, the Attorney General of Guyana.

The Legal Affairs Committee (LAC) is expected to receive a status report from the Preparatory Committee working on the establishment of the regional court during their two-day deliberations, which opens at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat headquarters on 24 January, 2001.

The public discussion is part of an ongoing public education and awareness programme aimed at sensitising citizens across the Region on this proposed new component of the system of the regional integration movement.