Prominent Guyanese attorney Nigel Hughes, Managing Partner of Hughes, Fields and Stoby in Guyana, joins Caribbean Business Review following leakedinternal correspondence in which five sitting CCJ judges reportedly raised concerns involving panel composition, judicial influence and the exercise of authority at the Court’s highest level.

The issue goes beyond the leaked emails.

What happens when litigants begin questioning not simply ajudgment, but the process that produced it?

Hughes examines judicial independence, accountability andwhether the existing institutional architecture can credibly address concerns involving the Court’s leadership. We also explore what the controversy could mean for confidence in the CCJ’s Original Jurisdiction, the CARICOM SingleMarket and Economy (CSME), commercial dispute resolution and regional investment risk.

Also in this episode, Jamaica’s Property Tax Illusionexamines the revaluation of approximately 900,000 land parcels, international property-tax comparisons built on false equivalences, extensive exemptions and the country’s highest-and-best-use valuation framework.

We also examine FinCEN’s major US beneficial ownershiprollback, which permanently exempts US companies and persons from reporting requirements while foreign reporting companies remain subject to disclosure—raising wider questions about shifting standards in global financialregulation.

Plus, Market Watch and Global Pulse cover the US$750 millionPoint Lisas steel revival, Jamaica’s fiscal and FDI performance, Cayman’s record surplus, falling reinsurance pricing, Strait of Hormuz oil disruption, global energy and shipping pressures and the wider international economic outlook.

Caribbean Business Review | Season 4, Episode 7

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