The Hon. Mohabir Anil Nandlall SC MP, Attorney General & Minister of Legal Affairs, last week, attended the Second Attorneys General Roundtable: Advancing Judicial Reform
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The Hon. Mohabir Anil Nandlall SC MP, Attorney General & Minister of Legal Affairs, last week, attended the Second Attorneys General Roundtable: Advancing Judicial Reform, Regional Collaboration and Backlog Reduction in Bridgetown, Barbados. The engagement was hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the Partnership of the Caribbean and the European Union on Justice (PACE Justice) Project. The Hon. Attorney General was accompanied by Mrs. Shalimar Ali-Hack SC, Director of Public Prosecutions.
Funded by the European Union (EU) the PACE Justice Project aims to strengthen and enhance the institutional capacities of police forces, prosecutors, and courts across the Caribbean region, enabling them to manage the backlog of criminal cases effectively and efficiently within the justice system. The Project is being implemented in eight Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
This was the second iteration bringing together Attorneys General and Directors of Public Prosecutions from across the Region. Discussions were held on judge-alone trials, plea bargaining, witness protection, strengthening legal aid, public defender systems, criminal defence capacity, and gang prosecution, and considered establishing a permanent Attorneys General network within the Region. The Hon. Attorney General of Guyana presented on the topic “Regional Good Practice Overview: National witness protection frameworks in the Caribbean – institutional gaps, legal limitations, and operational challenges.”
Also doing presentations at the Roundtable discussion were Hon. Dale Marshall SC GA MP, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs of Barbados, Hon. Leslie Mondesir, Attorney General of St Lucia, Hon. John Jeremie SC, Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, Hon. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs of Belize, Hon. Garth Wilkin, Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs of St. Kitts and Nevis, Hon. Levi Peter, Attorney General of Dominica, Mr. Daarsrean Greene, Director of Public Prosecutions of St. Lucia, Ms. Paula Lewellyn CD KC, former Director of Public Prosecutions of Jamaica, H.E. Fiona Ramsey, Ambassador of the European Union to Barbados and Ambassador Designate to the Eastern Caribbean States, Hon. Justice Mark Mohammed, Court of Appeal Judge of Trinidad and Tobago, among other senior functionaries from the EU and CARICOM.
The meeting resolved that to more effectively implement necessary reforms in the criminal justice systems in the countries participating in order to achieve the core objectives of the project, the Attorneys General, Directors of Public Prosecutions and other key and critical personnel should meet with greater frequency. In this regard, a third meeting has been fixed for the month of November, 2026 in Antigua and Barbuda for continuation of this engagement.
