The Criminal Justice Reform Project, jointly funded by the United States and the United Kingdom governments, hosted a training workshop that will help law enforcement in the region investigate and prosecute corruption cases related to misconduct in public office. The workshop, which took place on 3-4 April 2023 in Barbados, brought together over twenty-five senior investigators and prosecutors, including Directors of Public Prosecution from countries throughout the region, including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St.
Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. The training focused on investigating and prosecuting corruption cases relating to officials in public office. Sessions included an interactive forum on tools that can be used in the fight against corruption, including developing a cooperative relationship between prosecutor and investigator, the – NEWS –
challenges of collecting evidence, the organization and presentation of complex cases in court, and combating corruption through asset recovery. The training was facilitated by UK experts Alex Ferguson and Andrew Tennant and the Head of Legal of the Major Crimes and AntiCorruption Agency in Jamaica, Nigel Parke.
Attorney General Dale Marshall’s opened the workshop telling the group that investigating and prosecuting
