When Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) gather in Roseau, Dominica on Thursday, Haiti and the Community’s continued support to the French-speaking Member State,Cheap Jerseys China, the Region’s response to the global economic and financial crisis,China Jerseys, and the status of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) will be among the main items on their formidable agenda.At least 13 Heads of Government have confirmed that they will attend the two-day Twenty-First Intersessional Meeting being convened under the Chairmanship of the Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica.At the top of the agenda is the critical situation in Haiti following the January 12,NFL Jerseys Supply, 2010 earthquake which left more than 200,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,000 people dead and more than a million injured and displaced.The Community’s prompt response to the disaster was led by Jamaica, which is the sub-regional focal point for the area including Haiti under the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) arrangements.CARICOM’s primary focus in Haiti is in the area of health and it has relocated its mission to Leogane on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince . The Community’s Health Initiative involves some 14 health personnel who will be rotated initially every 14 days.The Community has lent tangible assistance in other areas such as providing relief supplies, conducting relief supply operations and mobilising resources with some US$9.4M pledged to date.The Intersessional Meeting will also feature an exchange of views with the Heads of the International Financial Institutions.Mr. Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank is confirmed for the meeting with the Heads of Government in Roseau while the President of the Inter American Development Bank and the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund have also been invited.Edwin Carrington, Secretary General of CARICOM said last week, that CARICOM will seek to articulate its positions on the major challenges it faces when it holds talks with Mr. Zoellick.Those discussions, he anticipated, will result in the identification of new and viable approaches to the treatment of some of the major challenges facing the Community including the crippling debt burden being carried by Member States which do not now qualify for concessionary debt reduction following their graduation from middle income status.Representatives of the World Bank met with CARICOM Finance Ministers in Trinidad and Tobago last Monday to prepare for the meeting with Mr. Zoellick.The Heads of Government will hold discussions with Jose Miguel Insulza,Cheap Soccer Jerseys China, Secretary General of the Organisation of American States. Key matters related to external trade that the Meeting will address include the negotiations for a CARICOM-Canada Trade and Development Agreement; the status of implementation of the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement and the renewal of the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act.Consideration will also be given to climate change in the context of the Region’s follow-up action to the Copenhagen Summit held last December 2009. The meeting will also consider follow-up to and preparations for upcoming summits including a CARICOM-Brazil Summit in April.

Former Magistrate Omeyana Hamilton, in a writs of Certiorari and Mandamus which was filed yesterday before Justice Dianne Insanally, is claiming that she was not afforded due process or a fair hearing when she met with Chancellor Carl Singh (ag) and Mr. Ganga Persaud.The motion was filed by Attorney at law Nigel Hughes.Hamilton was sacked with immediate effect on Tuesday.In her affidavit of support,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, Hamilton said that she met with the two members of the Judicial Service Commission, after a complaint was made by Acting Chief Magistrate Priya Beharry.Hamilton said that she believes that the Chancellor should not have been at the meeting, when considering the complaint of the Chief Magistrate, since “he had previously heard and determined my request not to travel to Bartica by speedboat.”Further, in the affidavit, she stated that the Chancellor’s direction to magistrate Hamilton, to travel by speedboat even after he was informed about her medical issues, had placed himself in the position of the complainant and would not have properly sat to commence an investigation into the complaint of the Chief Magistrate. By doing that Hamilton said that the Chancellor’s presence could have infected the proceedings with bias therefore infringing her right to a fair hearing.It was cited that the Judicial Service Commission acted ultra vires and in breach of the rules of natural justice when they purported to embark on the hearing of the Chief Magistrate.On Monday an order or rule nisi should be directed to Chancellor Carl Singh, Chief Justice Ian Chang, Mr Ganga Persaud, Mr Brymor Pollard and Justice Prem Persaud,Nike Jerseys Wholesale Store, who acted in their capacity as members of the JSC to show cause why the writs of Certiorari, should not be issued.The motion would seek to quash their decision to embark upon a hearing of the complaint of the Chief Magistrate.The magistrate said that the JSC acted ultra vires when they purported to dismiss her, without holding any disciplinary proceedings which were preceded by a written warning. Hamilton received her dismissal letter on Tuesday morning.On Wednesday a number of lawyers had expressed the view that the sacking of Magistrate Hamilton has now placed a further burden on the already heavily populated judicial system.The magistrate’s dismissal came after Hamilton refused to travel on a speedboat to the mining town of Bartica. All of Hamilton’s matters, are now been called by Magistrate Chandra Sohan in Court Seven.Magistrate Hamilton, who also operates Court Six in Georgetown, would normally travel to Bartica via ferry.The ferry operates three times weekly, which means the magistrate would start court session late in the mining community. The ferry would arrive mid-afternoon.The Judicial Service Commission (JSC), found that as a result, Magistrate Hamilton’s production was not what it should be had she reached the mining community early in the morning. And as a consequence of the use of the ferry,Cheap Jerseys 2018, matters in Georgetown would have to wait for the return of the magistrate.The JSC had suggested to the magistrate that she should travel by speedboat, which would see her returning to Georgetown on the same day.However it was explained that Hamilton would normally become nauseated whenever she travelled via speedboat. She also produced a medical to the JSC, supporting this claim. Obviously the magistrate’s safety has not been taken into consideration, since she was issued with a dismissal letter. Persons who travelled by speed boat are not insured.Hamilton was described by a number of lawyers as one of the most dedicated magistrates in the system.In recent times,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, magistrates were suspended for their alleged infractions, and not terminated, one member of the magistracy noted. If reservation about one’s safety is an infraction then something is radically wrong, the magistrate said.In 2009, Magistrate Geeta Chandan-Edmond was sent on two weeks’ suspension after she left the jurisdiction, allegedly without permission.Chandan-Edmond had left Guyana to attend a relative’s funeral in neighbouring Suriname.After her return, she received a letter seeking her explanation for her unauthorised absence from work,Cheap Jerseys Online, and also for her departure without seeking permission from the Judicial Service Commission.Members of the JSC, along with the magistrate,Cheap Jerseys 2018, met and debated about the issue. Soon after that meeting Hamilton was told by members of the JSC, that she would be suspended for two weeks without pay.The Magistrate is seeking damages in excess of $50,000 for the breach of Ar