The Bahamas Governor General hosts CCJ President

Sir Dennis Byron, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, pays a  courtesy call on Governor General of The Bahamas Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling  at Government House on Wednesday, February 25, 2015.

The CCJ, headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, has two functions:

• an Original Jurisdiction, which deals with your right to move between CARICOM countries freely and your right to move your money and your business. This is the basis of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas; and
• an Appellate Jurisdiction, to hear appeals from courts of those countries which decide to use it for this reason.
  ALL CARICOM Member States who have signed the Agreement Establishing the CCJ are Members of the CCJ.

(BIS Photo/Letisha Henderson)