PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has appointed Jamaican-born jurist Winston Anderson to act as president of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Mitchell, an attorney who is also chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) grouping, made the appointment under the agreement establishing the CCJ in 2001, replacing the London-based Privy Council as the region’s highest and final court.

Under the agreement, the functions of the president of the court “shall be performed by the judge of the court who is most senior, according to the date of this appointment, and he shall be appointed by letter under the hand of the chairman for the time being of the conference”.

CCJ President Justice Adrian Saunders will be on leave from until September 16, 2024 and the CCJ, in a statement, said that Justice Anderson, having been appointed a judge in June 2010, is presently the most senior judge of the court.