Saint Lucia Participates in Caribbean DPPs Virtual Conference
February 11, 2021
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Directors of Public Prosecutions (DPPs) from eighteen Caribbean islands came together at a virtual conference 28-29 January to discuss some of the current difficulties and challenges they collectively face, as organised-crime groups exploit structural vulnerabilities and benefit from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Barbados, the OECS countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Belize and the British Overseas Territories were all represented.
Conference delegates heard from regional and international experts on a range of issues, including the resumption of trials after COVID-19 and vulnerable witnesses in serious crime and sexual exploitation cases, recognising the impact on children as online and offline sexual abuse increased.
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Caribbean DPPs in virtual conference
DPPs and other Conference officials.
Directors of Public Prosecutions (DPPs) from eighteen Caribbean islands came together at a virtual conference 28-29 January to discuss some of current difficulties and challenges they collectively face, as organised-crime groups exploit structural vulnerabilities and benefit from the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
Barbados, the OECS countries of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Belize and the British Overseas Territories were all represented.
Conference delegates heard from regional and international experts on a range of issues, including the resumption of trials after COVID-19; vulnerable witnesses in serious crime and sexual exploitation cases; recognizing the impact on children as online and offline sexual abuse increased.
Full article Longwood house and the original grave of Napoleon are owned by the French government, given by Queen Victoria, so their upkeep is French responsibility
By Nick Sundin – The United Kingdom commemorated in June 2015 the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, marking the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the end of the Napoleonic Wars. In the months surrounding the bicentenary of 18th June 2015, battlefield visits abounded, with key sites in the vicinity of the battlefield and the town of Waterloo itself seeing large increases in tourism.
As many Friends of the British Overseas Territories will know, soon after Waterloo Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, forming the now-British Overseas Territory’s main claim to fame. But Saint Helena, in the words of veteran journalist and steadfast friend of Saint Helena, Michael Binyon, “missed a trick” by not tapping into this uptake in Napoleonic tou