Keyword(s):
Jamaica; Constitutional law; tied elections; electoral reform;
Governon-General; Prime Minister; dual nationality; Westminster model;
Charter of Rights; International Law; dualism; Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court
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This article provides an analysis of some recent developments relating to
Constitutional law in Jamaica, including the legal issues arising from tied
elections and the dual nationality of parliamentarians. It also discusses a case
relating to the failure to incorporate the United Nations Convention on
Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention). In this case, though
the Palermo Convention contemplates investigations by agents of one country
on the territory ofanother for certain crimes, one state party found it was unable
to carry out such investigations on the territory of another. Although the latter
country, a CARICOM member state, was also a party to the Convention, it had
not enacted the required implementing legislation
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Year:
2009
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Vol. 35, No. I-March 2009