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Kirk Anderson (judge)
Kirk Brian Anderson (born 20 April 1967) is a Caribbean jurist. A dual national of Jamaica and Belize, he has experience both before the bench and behind it, in Belize as Director of Public Prosecutions (Belize), Director of Public Prosecutions and in Jamaica as a justice of the Supreme Court of Jamaica, Supreme Court, and in both countries as a lawyer in private practice. Career Anderson came to Belize in the early 1990s, where he started out as a Crown Counsel. He later spent some years in private practice at the law firm of Dean Barrow, Barrow and Rodwell Williams, Williams. As a high-profile criminal attorney, Anderson often butted heads with the police, but nevertheless he was named Belize's Director of Public Prosecutions in March 2002, succeeding Rory Field. However, as his term went on, he began to clash increasingly with the United Democratic Party (Belize), United Democratic Party. In September 2004, he wrote to Financial Intelligence Unit Director Keith Arnold (banker), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and southeast of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory). With million people, Jamaica is the third most populous English-speaking world, Anglophone country in the Americas and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. The indigenous Taíno peoples of the island gradually came under Spanish Empire, Spanish rule after the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of Africans to Jamaica as slaves. The island remained a possession of Spain, under the name Colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |