The English speaking Caribbean inherited much of its cultural norms and its legal system from the British colonizers, so that just like the United States, it has a common law system which is a direct descendant of the English common law system and some of the countries still have close ties to the British since they retain the Privy council as their final court of appeal, others have opted to have the newly created Caribbean Court of Justice as their final Court of Appeal. [read post]

I know that when many people think of the Caribbean, the immediate images of islands surrounded by sand and sea bathed in sunshine fun and frolic come to mind; that is what we see on TV By extension the exotic jungles of the South America in particular my native land Guyana , the only English speaking country on the continent of South America, may also capture the imagination as a paradise of the kind propagated in the movie Tarzan, very little is known about the cultural… [read post]