A Barbadian attorney who has secured a historic seat on the Commonwealth legislative drafters’ body is already targeting the country’s shortage of legislative drafters.

Shaquille Newton was elected earlier this month as the Americas’ representative at the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel’s (CALC) full conference and general election in Singapore.

His election came alongside that of Jamaican attorney-at-law Michelle Daley, who was elected president of CALC, the first Caribbean national to hold that position, giving the region a stronger voice in the leadership of the Commonwealth’s professional association for legislative drafters.