Jamaica and Barbados Take Steps To Join International Criminal Conventions
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Author:
Bruce Zagaris
Date Published:
Friday, June 1, 2001
Volume:
17
Issue:
6
Pages:
244
Subject Areas:
Corruption
Arms Trafficking
International Courts
Geographic Identifier:
Barbados
Jamaica
Abstract:
The Jamaican and Barbados Governments have taken steps to join two Organization of American States criminal cooperation conventions.
On March 30, 2001, Jamaica become the 22nd country in the Americas to ratify the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption. Dr. Richard Bernal, Jamaica’s Permanent Representative to the OAS and Ambassador to the U.S., handed over its instruments of ratification in a ceremony at the OAS…[more]