Jacob Wit News Today

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat among others has paid tribute to Dutch Caribbean jurist Jacob Wit, an original member of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) who died Tuesday at 71, barely weeks after retiring from the Court.

Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is among regional leaders who have been receiving a swift backlash for comments made at a two day regional symposium on crime and violence in Trinidad and Tobago this week.

Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe yesterday expressed disappointment in criticism St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves made of Bahamian judges this week. Munroe said he supported Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judge Jacob Wit’s rebuke of those criticisms when Wit addressed a CARICOM crime symposium in Trinidad this week. In comments

The Trinidad-based CCJ has set July 19 as the date to hear an appeal filed challenging the results of the March 2020, general election.

Sunday 21 February 2021 GOVERNMENT has been told to reverse a decision to increase the import duties for cement to 50 per cent. The order came from the Caribbean Court of Justice on Friday as it ruled on an interim measure application by local cement importer Rock Hard Distributors and its St Lucia-based parent company. The interim measure means that the five per cent Common External Tariff on imported cement remains in place until the court determines Rock Hard’s challenge of the increase on...