GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 10, CMC – The first legal conference on criminal justice reform got underway here on Wednesday, with President Irfaan Ali warning that a “one size fits all” system is not the be it all for solving the problems facing the judicial system in the Caribbean.
“It is developing systems that are responsive to the situations under different conditions. It will be a great work if one is to do an analysis on a thinking process, the mindset between the same country men and women but living in two different areas.
“Unless the system supports this realignment then we will not be dealing with the criminal justice system in totality,” Ali told the opening of the two-day conference organised by the Guyana government, the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Academy for Law and is part of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded Support for the Criminal Justice System (SCJS) project in Guyana.
He told the regional and international delegates that “we can go and adopt all the legislation the IDB wants to recommend to us, we can bring all the best practices, but if we do not fix the ecosystem that is not only an issue for the judiciary or the dispensation of justice…it is a problem for all of us…
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