WATCH: Final court should be Jamaican, not Caribbean — Chuck

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Accusing the People’s National Party (PNP) of using accession to the Caribbean Court of Justice as a tactic to delay constitutional reform, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Delroy Chuck says it is the Government’s position that the country’s eventual final court should be of Jamaican design, not external.

“I think there’s a general consensus amongst most Jamaicans and certainly within the government that the final court should be a Jamaican appellate court and not a Caribbean court of justice. A Caribbean court of justice is basically a part of a political system that doesn’t exist,” Chuck told Observer Online, in an interview at his office

The minister continued, “There’s no Caribbean political system, and in those circumstances we feel that although we have signed on to the original jurisdiction, we are not at this present moment agreeing to a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) being our final court.”