BUGGERY LAW SHOWDOWN
Activist Maurice Tomlinson is optimistic about reforming buggery laws in Jamaica. His hope follows a decision by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to decriminalize same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago. Tomlinson described the ruling as a positive development for regional human rights. He stated that one of the final courts in the Caribbean removed a colonial vestige that previously bound citizens.
Gay-rights activist Maurice Tomlinson has expressed optimism about buggery law reform in Jamaica following the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council’s (JCPC) decision to decriminalise same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago. “This is a wonderful development not only for my case against Jamaica’s archaic anti-buggery law but also for regional human rights. One of the Caribbean’s final courts has struck down a vestige of our dark colonial past that kept our citizens in bondage,” he told The Gleaner hours after the judgment was handed down on Tuesday.