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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