Caribbean Times 12th Issue - Friday 20th May 2016

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12 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g Friday 20th May 2016 CCJ signs MOU on harmonising business law in the Caribbean Judges of the CCJ and members of the ACP Legal/OHADAC Project delegation. PORT OF SPAIN - The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has signed an Agreement of Cooperation with ACP Legal Association, which is based in Guadeloupe and executes the Organization for Harmonization of Business Law in the Caribbean (OHADAC) Project, at the Court’s headquarters in Port of Spain. The Agreement was signed on behalf of the CCJ by Court President, The Rt Hon Sir Dennis Byron, and on behalf of ACP Legal by its President, Judge Catherine Sargenti. The brief ceremony was witnessed by French Ambassador His Excellency Hédi Picquart. Under the Agreement, the CCJ in recognizing the goals of the OHADAC Project will lend such support as exists within its mandate towards achieving the implementation of a harmonized business law framework in the Caribbean. The OHADAC Project aims to consolidate the economic integration of the entire Caribbean, following similar reforms undertaken in Africa. The Project seeks to facilitate increased trade and promote international investment by providing a unified law and alternative dispute resolution methods. It is the ultimate goal of the harmonization process to have a unified law that is internationally respected, recognised and utilized. The signing of the Agreement represents the culmination of discussions between the two organisations following a two-day official visit by a delegation from ACP Legal Association/ the OHADAC Project. The delegation consisted of Judge Sargenti, President of ACP Legal and leader of the OHA- DAC Project; Dr Jean Alain Penda, OHADAC’s Project Manager; and Mr Keats Compton the co-founder of ACP Légal OECS Inc. Sir Dennis, in welcoming the delegation, pointed out the benefits of the collaboration. “We see the collaboration with the team from the OHADAC Project as being yet another way that the CCJ can play a significant role in deepening regional integration and in supporting economic development throughout the Caribbean.” The President thanked the French Ambassador for attending the event noting that his presence had served to give further symbolic significance to the CCJ’s efforts to promote wider Caribbean integration initiatives. The delegation also engaged in discussions regarding collaboration with the Caribbean Academy for Law and Court Administration (CALCA), the educational arm of the CCJ, concerning its conference in October, 2016. CALCA, in association with the General Legal Council (Jamaica), the Bar Association of St. Maarten and OHA- DAC, will host its 4th Biennial Conference on Law in St. Maarten with the theme ‘Law at the Cross-roads: Reappraising the Role of Common Law and Civil Law Practitioners in Transnational Development’. The conference will offer over twenty-five interactive sessions over The Rt Hon Sir Dennis Byron, CCJ President and Judge Catherine Sargenti, President of ACP Legal Association. two days and will include discussion on cutting edge legal issues that should prove critical to legal professionals, regulators, government officials, business and trade development professionals, and experts working in the financial sector. Mr Justice Anderson, the Chairman of CALCA, noted that the conference would be among the first concrete outputs of the Agreement between the CCJ and ACP Legal and that, “the organizing committee believes that the conference will be enhanced by discussion of the harmonization of commercial laws and the possible impact on regional trade. We look forward to the presentations from OHADAC and our other distinguished presenters.”
Friday 20th May 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 13 Terrorism suspected in crash of Egyptian jet; 66 feared dead SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s police chief resigned Thursday at the request of the mayor hours after an officer fatally shot a young black woman driving a stolen car - the culmination of several racially charged incidents in the past year. Pressure had been mounting for the resignation of Chief Greg Suhr since December, when five officers fatally shot a young black man carrying a knife. Since then, there have been protests, moves to reform the police department and a federal review of its protocol. Mayor Ed Lee supported the chief in December and again in April after it was disclosed that three officers had exchanged racist text messages. The texting scandal was the second to rock the department after it was disclosed that several officers had exchanged racist messages dating back to before Suhr was chief. But Suhr was criticized for moving too slowly to fire CAIRO – An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard veered wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, authorities said. Egyptian and Russian officials said it may have been brought down by terrorists. There were no signs of survivors. EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320 with 56 passengers and 10 crew members, went down about halfway between the Greek island of Crete and Egypt’s coastline, or around 175 miles (282 kilometers) offshore, after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, authorities said. Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said the plane spun all the way around and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar screens around 2:45 a.m. Cairo time (12:45 a.m. GMT). He said it made a 90-degree left turn, then a full 360-degree turn to the right, plummeting from 38,000 feet (11,582 meters) to 15,000 feet (4,572 meters). It disappeared at about 10,000 feet (3,048 meters), he said. There were no reports of stormy weather at the time. Egyptian and Greek authorities in ships and planes searched the suspected crash area throughout the day for traces of the airliner or its victims, with more help on the way from the U.S., Britain and France. But as night fell, they had yet to find any confirmed debris, at one point dismissing a reported sighting of life vests and other floating material. (AP) San Francisco’s police chief resigns amid racial issues the offending officers, all of whom have retained their jobs because of the chief’s failure to start disciplinary action when he first found out about the inappropriate. Suhr could not be reached for comment Thursday. Protesters demanding Suhr’s resignation drowned out the mayor’s second inaugural speech in January, and demonstrators forced the mayor to abandon a planned speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day later that month. Nonetheless, the mayor stood behind the chief, and the two announced a series of reforms aimed at reducing police shootings. The two also called in the U.S. Department of Justice to review the department’s policy and procedures. Suhr renewed his call for reform April 8 after an officer shot and killed a Latino homeless man who police said refused orders to drop a large knife. A relative of the victims of the EgyptAir flight 804 reacts as she makes a phone call at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, yesterday. But Suhr lost Lee’s backing Thursday, after a patrol car prowling an industrial neighborhood for stolen vehicles came across a 27-year-old black woman sitting behind the wheel of a parked car. Police said the car had been reported stolen. Officers turned on the patrol car’s lights and sounded its siren, and the woman to sped off in the stolen car. A few second later and about 100 feet away, the stolen car slammed into a parked utility truck. The officers jumped out of the patrol car and raced to the wreckage, where the woman was revving the car in an effort to disengage the auto from the truck. Suhr said a witness reported that the officers opened the driver’s door and began grabbing the woman in attempt to arrest her. At that point, a sergeant fired one fatal round. (AP)
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