Roseau - Jan. 11, 2012 - (dominicanewsonline.com): The judgement stated clearly that both petitions were dismissed because the petitioners had failed to establish their case, that as pertained to PM Skerrit, that they had failed to prove that he had become a French citizen of his own free will.  A relieved Skerrit, speaking from his office after the case (he was not in court for the judgement), insisted that he had not denied having French citizenship, but made it clear that it was something obtained for him as a child by his mother

Oct. 23, 2011 - Trinidad and Tobago will launch the country’s first Drug Treatment Court in 2012, to include technical assistance, training and cooperation from the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Basseterre - Aug. 29, 2011 -  Legal luminaries from across the region and beyond will descend on St. Kitts and Nevis this week to witness the historic swearing-in of Kittitian-born the Right Honourable Sir Charles Michael Dennis Byron as the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana -- Feb. 4, 2011 -- Regional and international stakeholders attending the opening ceremony of the high-level Drug Treatment Court training workshop in Montego Bay, Jamaica yesterday (Wednesday, 2 February) gave their full support to the establishment of Drug Treatment Courts (DTCs) within the Caribbean Community.

Port-of-Spain -- Nov. 27, 2010 -- The political lesson of what some are calling "Manninggate", similar to the Watergate (scandal) is this: "Never again must Trinidad and Tobago allow anyone to bypass the Constitution, to undermine the rule of law, to violate sacred rights to privacy and safety," Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday.

St. John's -- Oct. 26, 2010 -- On Wednesday this week, the 27th of October, The Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal is scheduled to deliver, in Saint Lucia, its judgment in the matter of the election petitions filed by the Antigua Labour Party challenging the results of the March 2009 elections in three seats in Antigua and Barbuda.

St. John's -- Oct. 8, 2010 -- The much-awaited ruling in the Election Petitions Appeal is now expected to be handed down at month end.

Aug. 27, 2010 -- As Minister of Justice, I am pleased to report that, by commencement order which has been officially gazetted, the Proceeds of Crime Regulations (Supervision and Enforcement) Amendment Act 2010 has today been brought into effect. This Act made amendments to the following pieces of legislation: Proceeds of Crime Regulations (Supervision and Enforcement) Act 2008 (SEA); Bermuda Bar Act 1974 (Bar Act); Institute of Chartered Accountants Act 1973 (ICAB Act); Financial Intelligence Agency Act 2007 (FIA Act)

Aug. 20, 2010 -- Saint Lucia has joined the growing list of nations that have ratified the pact establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s first permanent court tasked with trying people accused of the most serious offences, such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

NEW YORK, May 14, 2010 ---- World GTL Inc, in the largest lawsuit ever filed against a private or Government-owned company in Trinidad, and amid upcoming elections, said it had served, with the help of a court order there, the Government-owned Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Petrotrin) with a complaint in the United States Federal District court for the wrongful expropriation of its assets in a joint venture company, World GTL Trinidad Limited.  The Complaint requests damages of more than US $2 billion.

St. John's -- April 16, 2010 -- Screams and applause echoed in the gallery of the High Court building yesterday afternoon as supporters of the United Progressive Party (UPP) were informed that the court had ruled in favour of maintaining the stay of execution in the Election Petitions Case.

Port-of-Spain -- Sept. 19, 2009 -- The Government is openly inviting Chief Justice Ivor Archie to discuss the proposed changes to the draft constitution as they relate to the administration of justice in T&T.

Following is the full text of the address by Trinidad & Tobago Chief Justice Ivor Archie at the opening of the 2009/2010 Law Term.

May 3, 2009 -- A High Court in the United Kingdom has refused an application made by former Premier Hon. Dr. Michael Misick who challenged the decision by the British Government to suspend parts of the Turks and Caicos Islands Constitution. The decision was handed down in the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division Administrative Court today Friday May 1, 2009.

INITIAL LIST OF OFFSHORE SECRECY JURISDICTIONS- For purposes of this paragraph, each of the following foreign jurisdictions, which have been previously and publicly identified by the Internal Revenue Service as secrecy jurisdictions in Federal court proceedings, shall be deemed listed by the Secretary as an offshore secrecy jurisdiction unless delisted by the Secretary under subparagraph (F)(ii): (i) Anguilla, (ii) Antigua and Barbuda, (iii) Aruba, (iv) Bahamas, (v) Barbados, (vi) Belize (vii) Bermuda (viii) British Virgin Islands (ix) Cayman Islands. (x) Cook Islands. (xi) Costa Rica. (xii) Cyprus. (xiii) Dominica. (xiv) Gibraltar. (xv) Grenada. (xvi) Guernsey/Sark/Alderney. (xvii) Hong Kong. (xviii) Isle of Man. (xix) Jersey. (xx) Latvia. (xxi) Liechtenstein. (xxii) Luxembourg. (xxiii) Malta. (xxiv) Nauru. (xxv) Netherlands Antilles. (xxvi) Panama. (xxvii) Samoa. (xxviii) St. Kitts and Nevis. (xxix) St. Lucia. (xxx) St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (xxxi) Singapore. (xxxii) Switzerland. (xxxiii) Turks and Caicos. (xxxiv) Vanuatu.