From October 17th to 19th a group of organizations and individuals from countries of the Greater Caribbean opposed to the application of the capital punishment participated in the International Conference on the Death Penalty in the Great Caribbean organized in Madrid by the Community of Sant’ Edigio.
Following that event, Caribbean abolitionist organizations and individuals had a meeting in which they decided to initiate the efforts to constitute an organization to unite the entities in the Greater Caribbean, for the coordination, sharing information and establishing joint efforts for the abolition of the death penalty in all Caribbean countries. A Working Committee – constituted by five members – was elected as follows:
- Simeon Sampson SC, President of the Human Rights Commission of Belize – Belize
- Mr. Mario Polanco, Director of Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo – Guatemala
- Dr. Lloyd Barnett, attorney-at-law – Jamaica
- Ms. Leela Ramdeen, Chair of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice – Trinidad & Tobago
- Mr. Carmelo Campos, Coordinator of the International Affairs Committee of the Puerto Rican Coalition against the Death Penalty – Puerto Rico
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The Puerto Rican Coalition was selected by the Working Committee to be its Secretariat.
The initial name of this initiative is “The Greater Caribbean for Life”, reflecting the highest respect to right to live in the struggle against death penalty. The agenda of the Working Committee will concentrate in the following matters:
- To publicize this initiative between the abolitionist international community and international and regional organizations
- To establish effective communication structure with abolitionist organizations and individuals
- To pursue a broad consultation process within those entities
- To draft the constitutive documents for the regional entity
Please consult any of the members of the Working Committee for any issue related with this important development:
Mr. Sampson – simsam96@yahoo.com
Mr. Polanco – mariopolan@yahoo.com
Dr. Barnett – dr.lgb@mail.infochan.com
Mrs. Ramdeen – leela_ramdeen@hotmail.com
Mr. Campos – carmelocampos@yahoo.com
