Are all Consumer Protection Laws the same in CARICOM Member States?
 

No, we do need more transparancy.

Here an overview taken from the guide Consumers in CARICOM:

With the exception of Guyana and Saint Lucia, the legal system of the English-speaking Caribbean countries is chiefly derived from the British system of Statute and Case/ Common Laws. Hence there are some commonalities. For example, there is a Hire Purchase and Sale of Goods Act in several member countries. These laws are relied on to a large extent, to secure redress for consumers when transactions are not in keeping with fair practice.

On the other hand, both Haiti’s and Suriname’s legal systems are based on Civil Law. Suriname’s is founded on the Dutch Civil Law system and Haiti’s, on the French Napoleonic Code/French Civil Code. Accordingly, the mechanisms which provide some measure of consumer protection would be aligned to these systems.

The legal system of Guyana and Saint Lucia reflect distinct Common and Civil law traditions.

Notwithstanding initial similarities among some of the Member States, as economies and societies changed, individual territories have fashioned their own consumer protection framework. This has had the effect of wide variations in the levels of protection being available to consumers within the Region.

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