About Us

The Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers (CAJO) brings together the region’s Chancellors, Chief Justices, Judges, Masters, Registrars, Magistrates, Tribunal Members, Executive Court Administrators, and other judicial staff. The CAJO is a Non-Profit Organisation registered in Trinidad and Tobago. The first meeting of judicial officers across the region took place in June 2009 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and this marked the birth of the CAJO. With its own Constitution and membership, the CAJO was ably headed by Hon Mr Justice Adrian Saunders, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), who served as Chair from 2009 – 2019. The CAJO is led by a Management Committee which comprises judicial offices elected at the Association’s Business Meeting held biennially. The Management Committee comprises 16 members from almost all countries in the region. The CAJO provides a host of judicial education engagements for judicial officers across the region including its Biennial Conference, training programmes and workshops on various topics and areas of law and practice, and a biannual Newsletter, CAJO News.

The Management Committee

At the CAJO’s most recent Annual General Meeting held at its 7th Biennial Conference in Saint Lucia (October 2022), the membership elected a new Management Committee dedicated to overseeing the work and engagement of the CAJO. The Committee was elected to serve for a period of two years.

Justice Peter Jamadar

Chair

Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice and the Vice-Chair of Programming at the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute

Justice Roxane George

Vice-Chair

Chief Justice (A.g.) of Guyana

Justice Adrian Saunders

President of the Caribbean Court of Justice and served as Chair of the CAJO from 2009 – 2019

Justice Francis Belle

Judge of the Court of Appeal, Barbados

Justice Maria Wilson

Judge of the Court of Appeal, Trinidad and Tobago

Justice Carol Edwards

Judge of the Court of Appeal, Jamaica

Justice Sandra Nanhoe - Gangadin

Judge of the Court of Justice, Suriname

Justice Vivian Georgis Taylor-Alexander

Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court

Justice Kimberly Lasten

Judge of the Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

Justice Ricardo Sandcroft

Judge of the Supreme Court of Belize

Justice Shade Subair-Williams

Judge of the Supreme Court of Bermuda

Ms Constance Delancey

Registrar of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas

Ms Patricia Arana

Registrar of the Magistracy of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Her Worship Maxanne Anderson

Senior Magistrate, Bermuda

Judge Natiesha Fairclough Hylton

Judge of the Parish Court, Jamaica

Ms Suzanne Bothwell

Court Administrator of the Cayman Islands

Support Team

The CAJO is supported by three officers who assist the Management Committee.

Candace Simmons-Peters

Executive Administrator

Laurissa Pena

Legal Officer and Executive Manager

Elron Elahie

Research and Programme Coordinator

2019 – 2022 Management Committee

At the CAJO’s Business Meeting held at its 6th Biennial Conference in Belize (November 2019), the membership elected its Management Committee dedicated to overseeing the work and engagement of the CAJO. The Committee was elected to serve for a period of two years in the first instance.