On the advice of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission, the Hon. Justice Roy Jones has been appointed by HE The Governor, Mrs. Jane Owen, as an acting Judge of the Grand Court to preside over the trial of The Hon. Mr. W. McKeeva Bush, Member of Parliament, scheduled to commence on the 24 June 2024.
Justice Jones will be sworn in by the Governor on Monday 24 June 2024.
Justice Jones has had a long and distinguished record as a jurist. He served in the Jamaican Judiciary as a Judge of the High Court and as acting Judge of Appeal before being appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahamas in 2011. He retired from the Bahamas Judiciary in September 2023 having served for 8 years as a Judge of the Court of Appeal to which Court he was appointed in 2015. Justice Jones has previously served as an acting Judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, sitting for a period of three months between January and March 2010 in the criminal division.
Before his appointment to the Supreme Court of Jamaica, Justice Jones served as a Stipendiary and Circuit Magistrate in The Bahamas from September 1989 to October 1993.
