By Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 25, CMC – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Monday awarded the Trinidad-based political analyst and consultant, Derek Ramsamooj, US$30,000 in damages resulting from his arrest and detention in Suriname in 2020.
Ramsamooj had alleged that his rights under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC) which governs the regional integration movement, CARICOM, had been breached due to his unlawful detention by police officers in Suriname from October 2020 to September 2022.
He said he had also been denied legal counsel and medical attention and that he had also coerced into signing documents in Dutch, a language unknown to him, which were later used in court as his confession.
CCJ President, Justice Winston Anderson, who read the summary of the ruling, said that regarding remedies, the CCJ declined to make a declaration in respect of the alleged breach of the freedom to provide services being unsatisfied on the evidence that Ramsamooj was at the material time actively engaged in the provision of services within the meaning of the RTC.
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