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CARICOM, originally the Caribbean Community and Common Market, was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas which took effect on 1st August, 1973. The first four signatories were Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. A revised Treaty of Chaguaramas established the Caribbean Community including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and was signed by the CARICOM Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community on the 5th July, 2001 at their Twenty-Second Meeting of the Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas.
The purpose of CARICOM is to promote human and social development, to promote regional and economic integration and to form foreign and community relations. This includes the free skill movement in the market which allows persons to seek employment in any member state without a work permit as long as they have met the criteria of having a bachelor degree from a recognised university. Additionally, the video talks about the benefit of the free movement of goods and services where CARIFTA was established, this was done in order to allow member states to eliminate tariffs, quotas and preferences and all other barriers to trade on most (if not all) goods produced within the area. These eliminations helped smaller member states since they cannot compete on a large scale.
As mentioned in the video, the smaller states felt that they would be neglected by the larger states since these states are more developed therefore CARICOM established the Organization of Eastern Caribbean State(OECS) for smaller island states. These states met in the capital city of St.Kitts and Nevis and signed the Treaty of Basseterre. The benefit of the (OECS)in the Caribbean uses a free market system among member states which allows free trade and free movement of labour known as the (ECCM). The (OECS) will have the initiative to negotiate on the behalf of the members states when it comes to international trade.
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Charlotte School of Law bilked $285 million from taxpayers, former faculty member says
A lawsuit filed by a former professor of Charlotte School of Law accuses the failed school and its corporate owner of defrauding taxpayers out of $285 million by admitting hundreds of unqualified students, then manipulating records to keep them enrolled so the school could collect their government-backed tuition.
Barbara Bernier says the for-profit school, which closed last week, conspired with its owner, the InfiLaw System, to inflate enrollment and maximize profits. She says Charlotte Law lowered admissions and retention standards while misrepresenting both the state bar exam scores of their graduates and their success in finding jobs, according to a 2016 complaint that became public for the first time this month.
“The goal of the school has never been focused on education,” said Coleman Watson, Bernier’s Orlando, Fla.-based attorney. “The shareholder tended to be more important than the student body, and that’s why she came forward.”
Contacted by the Observer, Charlotte Law spokeswoman Victoria Taylor issued a statement that the school “will defend itself vigorously against the allegations in the complaint. Beyond that, we do not intend to comment on pending litigation.”
The school officially closed on Thursday. “We regret to announce that after months of extraordinary effort, Charlotte School of Law no longer has a path forward,” interim Dean Paul Meggett said in a Thursday statement to faculty, alumni and students. “We are heartbroken that we did not achieve the desired outcome … We are continuing to work diligently to help our remaining students find opportunities to complete their legal educations.”
Bernier’s whistle-blower lawsuit, which had been sealed at government request in the Florida federal courts, offers new details of what she describes as a culture that favored cash flow over academics, fueling Charlotte Law’s startling growth and its equally rapid collapse. And, she singles out school president Chidi Ogene and former dean Jay Conison with conspiring to defraud the government.
Her filing describes a school that pledged to “establish a benchmark of inclusive excellence” and produce “practice-ready” graduates. Instead, she says, 90 percent of students at InfiLaw’s three for-profit campuses have amassed a quarter of a million dollars in loan debt, with few landing the high-paying jobs necessary to repay the money.
Bernie filed her complaint in June 2016 under the False Claim Act in behalf of the federal government. As part of the lawsuit, Bernier asks that she receive a percentage of any damages awarded.
In an Aug. 14 filing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Orlando said its investigation into Bernier’s allegations continue but that it would not be intervening in her case at this time.
Hundreds of current and former students already have sued Charlotte Law for fraud and other grounds. Bernier is the first of their former teachers to join them.
In 2015, while on the law faculty at Florida A&M University, she sued the school charging that she was paid less and offered fewer opportunities because she was a woman.
Former Charlotte School of Law faculty member has sued her former school for the federal government, alleging school leaders fraudulently collected some $285 million in federal money over a five-year period.
courtesy of Coleman Watson
Watson described Bernie as “someone who is not only keenly aware of her legal rights but also can recognize a potential violation of the law.”
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, whose office has launched its own consumer-fraud investigation into Charlotte Law, says his staff will be following Bernier’s case to learn more about how the school treated its students.
“We want to make sure that the promises the school made were truthful,” Stein said. “Too many folks haven’t gotten what they expected to get from their legal educations, and it has cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
‘Harm to its reputation’
Charlotte Law had 1,600 students as recently as 2013, making it by far the largest law school in the state. At its closing, and after a year in which it was put on probation by the American Bar Assocation and expelled from the federal student-loan program, enrollment had fallen to under 100.
Earlier this year, Ogene, a former general counsel for InfiLaw, said the government’s surprise decision to withhold student-loan money had come after the school had raised admissions standards and was addressing criticism of its curriculum.
Bernier taught constitutional law at the school as a tenured faculty member from 2014-16. She resigned shortly after suing the school.
Much of her complaint focuses on the steps school leaders took in 2008 to increase and maintain the flow of students despite a recession that slashed both legal jobs and law school applications. Admissions office employees were given quotas of students they had to accept to keep their jobs, the suit says.
Over a six-year period beginning in 2010, Bernier says 1,355 substandard students were enrolled, which she says led to $285 million in improper government payments to the school. Watson said the estimate is based on public documents and statistics between 2010 and 2015.
A lawsuit filed by a former faculty member of Charlotte School of Law accuses school president Chidi Ogene of conspiring to defraud the government out of student-loan money. School leaders say the allegations are untrue.
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As financial pressures grew, the churn of students at Charlotte Law became more intense. Stein told the Observer that the school ranked dead last among the country’s 208 law schools in student retention.
Infilaw, which branded itself as “serving the underserved,” repeatedly targeted graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities as a revenue stream, Bernier says. In the school years of 2013 and 2014, Charlotte Law “indiscriminately admitted” an average of 45 students from Livingstone College in Salisbury. Few made it through a second semester, the lawsuit says.
To bolster the school’s sagging bar exam passing rate, school leaders identified students at risk of failing and paid them $5,000 to wait a year before taking the test. That meant their results would not be added to the first-time takers of the test, which is used to report a school’s overall mark.
At several points, school leaders reduced the grade point averages needed by students to remain in good academic standing to keep dozens of unqualified students in school who should have been disqualified, the suit says.
According to the complaint, Conison told faculty at the time that InfiLaw “could not tolerate the financial loss or the harm to its reputation.”
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A tree-killing insect that has devastated eastern forests is confirmed in Charlotte
An invasive insect that has killed millions of ash trees across the U.S. has arrived in Charlotte, a city official said Tuesday.
The emerald ash borer was first detected in North Carolina in 2013 after invading most other eastern states. It was a matter of time before the metallic green beetle appeared in Charlotte, experts told the Observer earlier this spring.
The ash borer appeared to have killed trees at a commercial development near South Tryon Street and Billy Graham Parkway, Heartwood Tree Service owner Patrick George reported last week.
Assistant city arborist Laurie Reid Dukes, who is an entomologist, collected specimens of the insect at the site. They’ve been sent for confirmation by the federal government, but Duke’s said she’s sure of her identification.
The N.C. Forest Service has already updated its map of confirmed locations of the insect to include Mecklenburg County. Trees in Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba and Iredell counties, west and north of the city, have already been attacked.
“My guess is they’ve been here about two years,” Duke said, the time that it typically takes the insect to fully kill trees.
Charlotte’s landscape management office has full information, including how to detect infestations, on its emerald ash borer page online. The city estimates 1,300 ash trees line Charlotte streets.
Signs of an infestation start with loss of leaves at the top of the tree. Other clues include tunnels under the tree’s bark where larvae have fed. Sprouts, a defensive response by the tree, often emerge from the base of the trunk.
Experts compare the beetle’s lethal potential to the blight that wiped out chestnut trees a century ago and to the insect that is now steadily killing hemlocks across the Southern Appalachian mountains.
Bruce Henderson: 704-358-5051, @bhender
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Charlotte Casiraghi’s son joins his mom and Prince Albert at the Monaco Grand Prix
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Charlotte Casiraghi’s three-year-old son, Raphaël Elmaleh stole the show during a rare public appearance at the Monaco Formula E Grand Prix in Monte-Carlo on Saturday, May 13. The Monaco royal, looking characteristically stylish wearing a crème pantsuit, stepped out for the event with her little boy, uncle Prince Albert and cousin Louis Ducruet. The royal family gathered on the podium stage at the Circuit de Monaco where the top three teams’ drivers joined them.
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Charlotte’s son Raphaël made a rare public appearance on May 13 Photo: YANN COATSALIOU/AFP/Getty Images
Raphaël looked adorable sporting vibrant red pants and a white button down shirt as he played with miniature racecars on the stage by his mother’s feet. Doting mom Charlotte, 30, kept a close eye on her little boy as he played beside a magnum bottle of G.H. Mumm. The mother-son duo appeared amused as they watched the winning drivers spray champagne on the podium. Charlotte welcomed her son with ex-boyfriend, Gad Elmaleh in 2013. The French comedian confirmed his split from Princess Caroline’s daughter last May, while admitting, “We stay close. We are a family.”
The royal’s son played on the floor with his car toys Photo: YANN COATSALIOU/AFP/Getty Images
Charlotte’s attendance at the formula race follows her recent getaway with her current boyfriend Dimitri Rassam. The couple took their love to Italy for the La Biennale Art Exhibition in Venice last week. Charlotte and French actress Carole Bouquet’s son were photographed cruising the canals of Venice on a boat, checking out art and holding hands during a romantic lunch at an outdoors café. On May 10, the royal mingled with actress Salma Hayek and her husband François-Henri Pinault as well as Adrien Brody at the Cini party during the 57th International Art Biennale.
Charlotte mingled with Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody during a recent trip to Italy with her boyfriend Photo: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images
Charlotte and Dimtri visited Jamaica and New York City together earlier this year. Back in 2015, Princess Grace Kelly’s granddaughter opened up to the French magazine Philosophie about love saying, "I believe that the key to a long and happy relationship is when you both share a passion for the truth, for life.”
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