{"id":59634,"date":"2012-04-01T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=59634"},"modified":"2012-04-01T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:49:47","slug":"dominica-to-join-ccj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/dominica-to-join-ccj\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominica to join CCJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/all-news\/caribbean\/dominica-to-join-ccj\/attachment\/ccj\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59635\" title=\"ccj\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ccj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ccj.jpg 162w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ccj-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says Dominica will join the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final court of appeal even as it moves to iron out some constitutional matters affecting the wider Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have indicated publicly several times our commitment to the CCJ. As a matter of fact we took a Cabinet decision in 2005 on the CCJ and we have gone to the Parliament to recognise the court in its original jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have indicated publicly the government\u2019s intention of recognising the court in its appellate jurisdiction. Clearly there is a procedure within the Constitution we have to follow. We have to go to the Parliament and get the two-thirds majority&#8230;but there is a process of the passage of the amendment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationnews.com\/articles\/view\/dominica-to-join-ccj\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says Dominica will join the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final court of appeal even as it moves to iron out some constitutional matters affecting the wider Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)&#8230;.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":59635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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