2024 Year-End Review
- September 9, 2025
Ministry of Justice Builds Results-Based Culture with Three-Day Monitoring & Evaluation Training
- September 5, 2025
Basseterre, St. Kitts – The Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs has launched a 3-day Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) training for justice-sector professionals, delivered with technical support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Multi-Country Office. The workshop forms part of Government efforts to…
Government Officials from Saint Kitts and Nevis Engage in Regional Dialogue on Youth Protection
- September 5, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2025 Government Officials from Saint Kitts and Nevis Engage in Regional Dialogue on Youth Protection Bogotá, Colombia – Ms. Nerissa Williams, Permanent Secretary (Ag) in the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, and Ms. Azilla N. Clarke, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Social Development and Gender Affairs, represented the…
Stronger Justice, Faster Trials: AG Wilkin highlights benefits of Criminal Justice reform measures at regional roundtable
- September 5, 2025
In the photo [left to right]: Hon. Garth Wilkin – Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, St. Kitts and Nevis; Hon. Leslie Mondesir – Attorney General of Saint Lucia.; Mrs. Paula V. Llewellyn, C.D., K.C. – Director of Public Prosecutions, Jamaica; Hon. Mohabir Anil Nandlall, S.C., M.P. – Attorney General and Minister of…
Justice Ministry Builds Momentum on Human Rights-Based Justice Reform with UN Training for Crown Counsels
- September 5, 2025
Basseterre, Saint Kitts – As part of its broader commitment to modernising the administration of justice, the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs, in partnership with the CARICOM Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), hosted a two-day training workshop on July 24–25, 2025, aimed…
How to Clear Your Criminal Record Under the Criminal Records Act
- September 5, 2025
Basseterre, Saint Kitts, June 12, 2025 – The Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs advises the public that persons with certain criminal convictions may now have their records cleared, also known as “expunged,” under the Criminal Records (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act. Automatic Expungement for Minor Cannabis Offences If you were convicted of simple cannabis possession…
The Human Resource Management Department on behalf of the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs in the Government of St Kitts and Nevis wishes to invite persons to apply for the position of Public Defender on a full-time basis. A. Duties and Responsibilities 1. Providing legal defence advice to, and representing, indigent defendants and other eligible persons—…
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS HOSTS CRITICAL OECS LEGAL AFFAIRS MEETING TO TACKLE KEY LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS
- April 9, 2025
Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 10, 2024 (SKNIS): The 36th Meeting of the OECS Legal Affairs Committee commenced on Thursday, October 10, at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium, ECCB Headquarters, Bird Rock, St Kitts. This pivotal two-day assembly will see Attorneys General from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and their surrogates convene to deliberate on…
Two District A Magistrates’ Courts Relocated to the Former “Glencove” Building at Fortlands, Basseterre
- April 9, 2025
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, August 21, 2022 (SKNIS): Two of the three District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Courts have a new home in the former “Glencove” building at Fortlands, Basseterre, in the vicinity of the War Memorial and Fisherman’s Wharf. Attorney-General and Minister of Justice & Legal Affairs, Hon. Garth Wilkin stated that he “is pleased that the new…