MANDEVILLE, Manchester – Executive director of the advocacy group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) Mickel Jackson is adamant that Jamaica should move ahead with the proposal to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the country’s final appellate court despite the controversy now engulfing the court.

Pointing to a recent public response by the CCJ President Justice Winston Anderson to leaked emails with allegations around panel fixing and interference, Jackson called for accountability from the Trinidad-based institution and reassurance that the matter will be properly ventilated.

“He [Anderson] strongly condemned the leaking of those emails. However, there are some serious questions that still remain and I would urge the Caribbean Court of Justice to announce that an investigation has commenced or at the very least say to the public across the Caribbean region what mechanisms of accountability exist,” said Jackson as she addressed the Lay Magistrates’ Association of Jamaica [LMAJ] Golden Scale Awards at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville on Saturday.