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Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, says work is far advanced on the third draft of the Bail Act.

In June, Minister Malahoo Forte announced that a new Bail Act is coming, pending the revision of wording to some clauses.

Speaking in a recent interview, the minister said the current review process is focused on fine-tuning the law, with the aim of tabling it in September.

She noted that the existing legislation provides a good foundation on which to do the revision.

“The process aims to make it one of the best and most balanced pieces of legislation on a matter that people are very anxious about. We are coming up on the summer recess and it is looking like it’s going to be a September timeline,” she said.

The Minister told JIS News that the revised law will set out the entitlement to bail.

“It will look at the power to grant bail, the reasonable conditions on which bail will be granted, what amounts to sufficient cause for keeping someone in custody, and it will provide a good menu of the things to be considered by the court,” she said. The law is also expected to clarify the processes for review and appeal as well as to look at timelines within which actions are to be taken. “We are also moving to put prescribed forms in place to ensure that all matters that have to be communicated will be communicated in a standard prescribed form,” Mrs. Malahoo-Forte said.

She noted, further, that “there are new features to the law, in addition to localising it and taking into account the matters that we have been documenting and collecting data on within the Jamaican context.

The law really honours the principles that the courts have been given much guidance on and looks at what it is that bail is intended to do in a balanced way”. Minister Malahoo Forte said she is looking forward to the completion of the process.

“If I must say so myself, I am quite excited, because great care is required in preparing law. The policy behind the law must be very clear and what is drafted in the law must be equally clear to capture the policy intent in the legislation,” she noted.

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On Saturday, July 09th, 2022 representatives from several agencies and persons from the
community convened to participate in a field mapping training and exercise in Vieux-Fort from 9:30am-4:00pm.

The exercise is being implemented under the Map4SaintLucia initiative. Participants included representatives from their partner agencies Red Cross, NEMO and the Youth Emergency Action Committee (YEAC); as well as volunteer mappers and individuals from the community.

During this exercise, participants were taught how to use a digital mapping platform to create maps of a community and then go into the field to validate the data collected.

They are also taught to utilize a mobile-based tool for field-mapping. Such maps play an important role in building disaster resilience; as they serve as an important tool in providing critical information for disaster planning, response and assessments.

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They are often used prior to and in the aftermath of hurricanes, landslides, earthquakes and floods.

The exercise was facilitated by OpenStreetMap Specialist and adjunct Professor at George
Washington University, Steven Johnson and Geographic Information Systems specialist,
Christopher Williams.

Map4SaintLucia is funded via a unique global partnership between the Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap team (HOT), SwissRE Foundation and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) which focuses on the use of geospatial data for building resilience and reducing vulnerability to disasters.

Map4SaintLucia expressed gratitude to their partners and also to: Vieux-Fort Comprehensive Secondary School, the Vieux-Fort South Constituency Council; LUCELEC and the Windward & Leeward Brewery LTD for supporting the mappers who are working to build Saint Lucia’s digital map and by extension, a more resilient Saint Lucia.

Source: HOT OpenCities LAC Local Implementing Team – Saint Lucia

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