BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) wrapped up the Barbados leg of the Shanique Myrie case here during the past week and in the process completed a major demonstration of why this institution has become a critical part of our regional jurisprudence.
The Myrie case is of course an important one. It highlights the wisdom of creating the court with a dual jurisdiction for disputes of the kind which will occur from time to time and will need to be settled in a manner that does not give rise to the slightest suspicion that parochial irrelevancies may have inserted themselves in the resolution of these thorny issues.