KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda’s Overseas Affairs Minister, E.P. Chet Greene, on Tuesday deposited the Instrument of Accession for the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Arrest Warrant Treaty that got here into pressure in July 2018.
The CARICOM Secretariat stated that the target of this treaty is to determine, inside the Caribbean Group, a system of arrest and give up of requested individuals to conduct in respect of these individuals a legal prosecution for an relevant offence.
It’s also meant to executing a custodial sentence or better punishment the place the requested individuals have fled from justice after being convicted or sentenced for an relevant In keeping with the CARICOM Secretart web site, Barbados, Guyana and Grenada ratified the treaty in 2018 ans 2019, whereas The Bahamas, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago signed between 2017 and 2018.