Jamaica and Barbados Take Steps To Join International Criminal Conventions

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]