Catholic Commission for Social Justice
MEDIA RELEASE FROM: The Catholic Commission for Social Justice & The Greater Caribbean for Life
Once again, the Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) and the Greater Caribbean for Life (GCL) urge TT’s Government to focus on human development and crime prevention rather than expend time and energy in seeking to resume hanging.
Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis and Guyana
Following GCL’s successful Speaking Tour in 2014 to Antigua, Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada, Barbados and Nassau, Bahamas in October 2014, a second one is being planned to take place in November 2015.
10 October 2013
On 10 October 2013, 11th World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Greater Caribbean for Life has called on governments of countries that retain the death penalty in the Greater Caribbean to urgently and effectively tackle crime, but without resort to the death penalty.
Port of Spain –2 October 2013
We, The Members of the Greater Caribbean for Life, at our first meeting in Trinidad and Tobago on 2 October 2013,
Welcoming that no executions have been carried out in the Greater Caribbean since 2008, and that the number of death sentences imposed in the region has been declining,