Constitutional Reform Commission engaging DLP, various groups 

When the Constitutional Reform Commission meets for the year 2023, it will be doing so with the Council of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP).

Chairman, Justice Christopher Blackman in an interview with CBC News said it will be an active six weeks ahead and the Commission will be having business sessions with various groups.

The DLP’s will be on January 11, followed by the Barbados Association of Retired Persons on January 16, the Women in Development Department of The University of the West Indies on January 23 and the Barbados Bar Association on January 31.

The local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community will have their meeting in the first week of February.

The thematic town hall meetings will resume in February but Justice Blackman says the dates are still to be decided.

Since public sessions began in October 2022 the Commission has received over 60 written submissions with suggestions about how the Barbados Constitution ought to be reformed.

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