Veteran lawyer against joining CCJ

CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – A member of the St. Lucia delegation that attended the constitutional talks leading to the island’s political independence from Britain more than three decades ago, says he is “dead against” breaking ties with the London-based Privy Council.
Attorney Evans Calderon, one of two surviving delegates to the talks more than 34 years ago, told a local newspaper that he also believes that in order to join the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the island would have to stage a referendum.
“You cannot change to the Caribbean Court of Justice without a referendum,” he said, adding “I am dead against changing the Constitution from what it is to what they want it to be by a simple act of parliament”.