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January 15th, 2024
Chief Justice Janice M. Pereira delivers 'final' opening speech to ECSC Law Year Opening

SAINT GEORGES, Grenada – Chief Justice Hon Dame Janice M. Pereira has delivered what she said was her final speech as Chief Justice at a Special Sitting to Commemorate the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Opening of the Law Year.

September 7th, 2022
Skelton-Cline names Justice Janice M. Pereira as VI’s next possible Premier

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– After months of teasing that the next Premier of the Virgin Islands (VI) will be a woman, ‘Honestly Speaking’ talk show host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has named Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Dame Janice M. Pereira as that person.

October 22nd, 2021
VI’s Janice M. Pereira hailed by CCJ as Pioneering Caribbean Woman Jurist

RODNEY BAY, Saint Lucia, WI- Daughter of the [British] Virgin Islands soil the Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, LL.D, Chief Justice, has been recognised by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Academy for Law as a Pioneering Caribbean Woman Jurist.

January 14th, 2020
‘Provide more than lip service to the courts’- CJ Pereira to gov’ts

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islander and Chief Justice (CJ) of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), Her Ladyship, The Honourable Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, has continued her call on governments of member states and territories to do more than just lip service to the ECSC but rather to put their money where their mouths are.

March 14th, 2017
Chief Justice Janice M. Pereira commends St Kitts Gov’t

BASSETERRE, St Kitts- Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), Dame Janice M. Pereira has commended the Team Unity Administration for its efforts and commitment in the historic opening of a second court room at the Sir Lee L. Moore Judicial and Legal Complex on March 13, 2017 that will enable the expedition of justice in a more efficient manner.

September 18th, 2015
Chief Justice Pereira puts ‘errant’ ECSC Lawyers on blast

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), Her Ladyship Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE, spared no words in putting lawyers of the Virgin Islands and others in the Eastern Caribbean territory on blast during her address for the opening of the 2015-16 Law Year.

September 18th, 2013
Archaic court buildings violating health & safety stds.– CJ Pereira

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Court buildings within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) have been described by Her Ladyship the Hon. Chief Justice Dame Janice M. Pereira, DBE as archaic and have been seen as violating basic health and safety standards.

May 7th, 2013
UPDATE: Chief Justice Janice Pereira gets Damehood!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As first reported by Virgin Islands News Online on November 19, 2012, His Excellency the Governor Boyd McCleary is delighted to announce that the honour of Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire (DBE) has been conferred upon Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Eastern Caribbean Honourable Mrs. Justice Janice Pereira by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to the administration of justice. The DBE is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King Geor

November 21st, 2012
Chief Justice Pereira & Judge Redhead clash on case management issues

ROAD TOWN Tortola, VI – Recently appointed Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Her Ladyship the Hon. Madam Justice Janice M. Pereira has expressed full confidence in having the case management process occurring throughout the judicial system.

November 14th, 2012
Territory Prepares To Officially Welcome Chief Justice Pereira

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Territory, through the Premier’s Office, is finalising plans to officially welcome home Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Her Ladyship, the Honourable Madam Janice Mesadis Pereira.

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