By Jacqueline Charles August 1, 2026 GROS ISLET, SAINT LUCIA Throughout the English-speaking Caribbean—and in Canada—Aug. 1 is observed as the day the British Empire’s official abolition of slavery took effect in 1834. But as former British colonies mark Emancipation Day on Saturday, Caribbean leaders and activists pushing for reparatory justice say it’s also time to … Continue reading Why Emancipation Day in the Caribbean is becoming a reckoning with slavery’s legacy
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The Belize Policy Research Institute at the University of Belize (BELPRI-UB) in collaboration with the Institute of Social & Cultural Research-National Institute of Culture and History (ISCR‑NICH) welcome submissions exploring Belize's progress, shortcomings, and pathways forward.🗓 Submission Deadline: July 27, 2026ℹ Conference Information:Keeping Independence Alive: Belize @ 45September 30-October 1, 2026Belmopan, Belize (In person)✉ Send … Continue reading Keeping Independence Alive: Belize @45
July 1, 2026KINGSTON – Jamaica says it will formally petition Charles III on September 6 to refer key legal questions on slavery reparations to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the Caribbean country advances its campaign for reparatory justice. Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Minister Olivia Grange told Parliament during her contribution to the 2026/27 … Continue reading Jamaica to ask King Charles to refer reparations questions to Privy Council
Gender on the Frontlines Conference 2026 Welcome to the submission page for the Tamùkke Feminists & University of Guyana Institute of Gender Studies Conference 2026: Gender on the Frontlines: Roles, Risks, and Urgency in a Changing Environment. Tamùkke Feminists, in partnership with the University of Guyana’s Institute of Gender Studies, invites academics, researchers, practitioners, advocates, … Continue reading Call for Abstracts – University of Guyana
The impending conclusion of the programme was highlighted during a recent farewell courtesy call on Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, by Lisa Thompson, Country Director of the Justice Education Society, who was accompanied by International Programme Director, Gavin Martyn. During the meeting May 9, 2026 The Canadian-funded Justice Education Society (JES) Guyana Programme will … Continue reading Canadian-funded justice programme to conclude in Guyana after four years of hinterland outreach
The Centre for Criminal Justice and Security (CCJS), University of the West Indies, in collaboration with, The Government of Jamaica, Ministry of National Security CARICOM, IMPACS Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) United Nations Development Programme, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean (UNDP) The European Union (EU) is organizing … Continue reading Call for Papers: 4TH CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE ON CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Large number of NGOs issue a statement Yesterday, October 19, marked the anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada. Forty-two years later, regional sovereignty remains a vexed question in the Caribbean, and it is being put to the test by the current US military incursions that have resulted in six strikes against vessels in the … Continue reading In Nobody’s Backyard: Open Letter Opposing US Military Incursions and Reaffirming the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace
Kevin Davis is the Beller Family Professor of Business Law at NYU School of Law, where his research focuses on the relationship between law and economic development, corruption, and the use of foreign law in domestic contexts. His recent paper, The Significance of Foreign Law: A Jamaican Case Study, explores how laws originating outside Jamaica have influenced … Continue reading Video Available: “Do foreign laws influence homicide rates in Jamaica”: A presentation by Prof. Kevin Davis
Presented by U of T Centre for Caribbean Studies and the CCI Dear Students, Colleagues, and Friends, You are warmly invited to join us for a hybrid event: Do Foreign Laws Influence Homicide Rates in Jamaica?Presented by: Professor Kevin Davis (New York University School of Law)📅 Monday, October 6, 2025🕛 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM📍 William Doo Auditorium, 45 … Continue reading Kevin Davis: Do foreign laws influence homicide rates in Jamaica?
May 26, 2025 Written by Janine Mendes-Franco Following the March 25 overturning on appeal of a landmark 2018 High Court decision in Trinidad and Tobago that deemed the criminalisation of anal sex between consenting adults “unconstitutional,” respondent Jason Jones will take his case to the UK's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which still remains the twin island republic's highest court of … Continue reading A push for constitutional reform in Trinidad & Tobago as overturned ‘buggery law’ ruling heads for the Privy Council