Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) lead­ers have ac­cept­ed the rec­om­men­da­tion of the Re­gion­al Ju­di­cial Le­gal Ser­vices Com­mis­sion (RJLSC) to ap­point the Ja­maican-born ju­rist, Jus­tice Win­ston An­der­son, as the new pres­i­dent of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ).

The CCJ was es­tab­lished on Feb­ru­ary 14, 2001 to re­place the Lon­don-based Privy Coun­cil as the re­gion’s high­est court, and while most of the re­gion­al coun­tries are mem­bers of its Orig­i­nal Ju­ris­dic­tion that al­so serves as an in­ter­na­tion­al tri­bunal in­ter­pret­ing the Re­vised Treaty of Ch­aguara­mas that gov­erns the re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion move­ment, on­ly Bar­ba­dos, Be­lize, Do­mini­ca, Guyana and St. Lu­cia are mem­bers of its Ap­pel­late Ju­ris­dic­tion.

Jus­tice An­der­son be­comes the fourth pres­i­dent of the CCJ, re­plac­ing the St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines ju­rist, Jus­tice Adri­an Saun­ders, who re­tires lat­er this year.