Turner to Serve as Judge in the Turks and Caicos Islands

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Senior Justice Bernard Turner has been appointed by the Judicial Services Commission as a Justice of Appeal for the Turks and Caicos Islands from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2028.

His Lordship is a 1987 graduate of the Norman Manley Law School, Kingston Jamaica, has been a Judge in the Supreme Court of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas since December of 2009. He was appointed a Senior Justice in The Bahamas in October of 2020.

Senior Justice Turner served as Crown Counsel in the Office of the Attorney-General since 1988 and was appointed the DPP in 1999. He served as DPP for ten (10) years.

He is presently the Senior Judge in the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court. He chairs the committee for the design and installation of an electronic Bail Management System in The Bahamas, is one of three committee chairs responsible for the relaunch of a Digital Recording System within the court system of The Bahamas, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Supreme Court, and a member of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of The Bahamas.

Prior to joining the Judiciary, Senior Justice Turner was a trained Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Examiner, a CFATF Mutual Examination AML/CFT Examiner and Trainer, an IMF Short Term Consultant on Assessing the Quality and Consistency of AML/CFT Reports, the 2002 to 2004 Chair of the Commonwealth Working Group on Asset Repatriation and the Bahamian designated expert on the Committee of Experts on the Implementation of the Organization of American States Corruption Convention.