James Bond to chair Adoption Board
Attorney James Bond
Attorney James Bond

MINISTER of State Joseph Harmon, has said that Attorney James Bond has been appointed chairman of the new Adoption Board.
Addressing reporters at his post-Cabinet briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency on Thursday, Harmon said the other board members are Geoffrey Sankies, Kashir Khan, Clonel Samuels-Boston, Punilall Latchman, Patricia Gray and a representative of the parliamentary opposition.
The life of the new board is one year.
The board processes monthly reviews of 12 to16 adoption applications. It also has to ensure that a child is not yet, and will not reach his or her 18th birthday during the process, which takes about seven months.
According to the law, an 18- year- old cannot be adopted.
Persons whose applications to adopt are rejected are usually allowed to appeal.
This is because in many cases, additional/new information surfaces, which was not available before, or because there might have been a misunderstanding of the process.

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