CCJ ready to become JA's final appeal court - PNP

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has reaffirmed its position that the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) "is fit and ready" to become Jamaica's final appellate court.

The Privy Council in the United Kingdom is Jamaica's final court of appeal.

"The time has long passed that Jamaica should stop loitering on the doorsteps of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom, from which we gained our independence 55 years ago," PNP spokesperson on justice Donna Scott Mottley said in a statement.

Mottley pointed to statements made by Prime Minister Andrew Holiness this week that he had full confidence in the new President of the CCJ Adrian Saunders.

"The PNP is reminding the Prime Minister that it is his JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] led government which stood and continues to stand in the way of the CCJ being Jamaica's final appellate court," she said.

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