GEORGETOWN, Guyana, May 24, 2022 - Shawnette Bollers, a former Afro-Guyanese policewoman, plans to mount a legal challenge against the Director of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) decision to withdraw a private criminal charge of inciting racial hostility, that she had filed against Indo-Guyanese Attorney-at-Law Nirvan Singh.
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, April 30, 2022 - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Caribbean Court of Justice Trust Fund (CCJTF), Dr Linton A. Lewis has been re-elected unopposed to the position of Chair for another three year term.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 17, 2022 - President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, (CCJ) Justice Adrian Saunders is disappointed that Guyana has not been able to have a substantive Chancellor of the Judiciary and a Chief Justice in place for almost two decades, and wants to see the appointments made before the end of the year.
KINGSTON, April 2022 - The PNPYO notes with alarm the position adopted in the last Sunday Observer editorial in seeking to denounce our call for the government to set the process in motion for Jamaica to leave the Privy Council and have the Caribbean Court of Justice as our final appeal court during this 60th anniversary year.
UNITED STATES, Washington DC, April 7, 2022 - Ketanji Brown Jackson, a liberal appeals court judge, was confirmed to the supreme court today, after rancorous Senate approval process, to become the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the high court in its more than 200-year history. Three Republican Senators supported her nomination.
Jackson was confirmed by a 53-47 vote mainly on party lines, but with three Republicans voting in her favor. The vote was 53 to 47, with all Democrats in favor. They were joined by three moderate Republicans, senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who defied deep opposition within their party to support Joe Biden’s nominee.
Her place on the court is seen as a victory for President Joe Biden and his effort to diversify the US' top court. Biden called the confirmation "a historic moment for our nation" in a post on Twitter.
"We've taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America. She will be an incredible Justice, and I was honored to share this moment with her," Biden wrote.
Judge Jackson’s confirmation was a historic moment for our nation. We’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America. She will be an incredible Justice, and I was honored to share this moment with her. pic.twitter.com/K8SAh25NL5
— President Biden (@POTUS) April 7, 2022
During his presidential campaign, Biden has promised to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court.
With Jackson's confirmation, four of the nine justices on the Supreme Court will be women for the first time in US history.
Jackson will be the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall, who died in 1993, and Clarence Thomas, who currently serves. She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan Amy Coney Barrett.
She will replace Stephen Breyer, 83, the most senior member of the court’s liberal bloc. Breyer, for whom Jackson clerked early in her legal career, said he intends to retire from the court this summer.
At 51, Jackson is young enough to serve on the court for decades. Her seat on the Court will do little to tilt the ideological balance of the highest court in the land, dominated by a 6-3 conservative majority. However, for the first time in the court’s history, white men are in the minority.
The first woman to serve as US Vice President, Kamala Harris, presided over the Senate vote to confirm Jackson as first Black woman to join the supreme court, underscoring the historic nature of her confirmation. Harris called for the final vote on Jackson’s nomination with a smile on her face, and the chamber broke into loud applause when the judge was confirmed.
“Today, we are taking a giant, bold and important step on the well-trodden path to fulfilling our country’s founding promises,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said just before the final vote. “This is a great moment for Judge Jackson. But it is an even greater moment for America as we rise to a more perfect union.”
GEOIRGETOWN, Guyana, March 2022 - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Tuesday March 15, ruled that Guyana’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) could not unilaterally order a Magistrate to conduct another preliminary inquiry but must instead ask the High Court to decide.
KINGSTON, March 23, 2022 - The People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) has welcomed the news coming from both Government and Opposition that plans are moving ahead to make Jamaica a Republic.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 9, 2022 - Opposition Spokesman on National Security Peter Bunting, says he has given instructions to his attorneys to take note of media reports in relation to the Integrity Commission’s Special Report of Investigation into Allegations Concerning Acts of Impropriety, Irregularity and Corruption in the Issuance of Firearm User Licences to Persons of ‘Questionable Character’, as well as the Report itself, with a view to taking legal action if necessary.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, March 9, 2022 - Guyana on Tuesday submitted its memorial on the merits of its case against Venezuela in relation to the ongoing border dispute which is before the International Court of Justice.
President Joe Biden made good on his promise to nominate the first Black female justice to the Supreme Court when he announced that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was his choice on Feb. 25, 2022. Jackson is currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where she was one of President Biden’s first judicial nominees. We asked Alexis Karteron, director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic at Rutgers University Law School and a former senior attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, to give us her impressions of the nomination.
