Gender on the Frontlines Conference 2026 Welcome to the submission page for the TamĂškke Feminists & University of Guyana Institute of Gender Studies Conference 2026: Gender on the Frontlines: Roles, Risks, and Urgency in a Changing Environment. TamĂškke Feminists, in partnership with the University of Guyanaâs Institute of Gender Studies, invites academics, researchers, practitioners, advocates, … Continue reading Call for Abstracts – University of Guyana
Category: Justice
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 Nobodyâs 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)đ Monday, October 6, 2025đ 12:30 PM â 1:50 PMđ 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 âunconstitutional,â 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 âbuggery lawâ ruling heads for the Privy Council
The discussion of Reparatory Justice for Black Chattel Slavery in the Caribbean has been underway for many years. There have been a variety of meetings in United Nations fora, in organizations such as the Commonwealth, bilaterally between states, and both within, and between, many NGO organizations. There is an increasing sense that these discussions are … Continue reading Reparatory Justice for Black Slavery: Video recording now available
January 9, 2025 by Bert Wilkinson, Associated Press Guyana said Thursday that it will seek help from the United Nationsâ top court to deter plans by neighboring Venezuela to elect a governor to rule its western Essequibo region, an area rich in resources long claimed by Venezuela as its own. Guyanaâs foreign ministry said in … Continue reading Guyana to seek help from UN’s top court as Venezuela vies for control of disputed territory
UK. King Charles III speaks with the Jamaican prime minister, Andrew Holness, in London on 17 September 2022. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool via Getty Images Source: Guardian Like other colonies, the Caribbean nation retained the British monarch as head of state after independence in 1962. Guardian international staff, Fri 13 Dec 2024The Jamaican government has taken … Continue reading Jamaica tables bill to oust King Charles as head of state and become a republic