Chamber members, Dr. Emir Crowne and Matthew Gayle, were mentioned on the TVJamaica Evening News today over Jason Jones vs. CARICOM. Crowne and Gayle are representing Jason Jones, the President and Co-founder of the Association of Caribbean Students for Equal Access to the Legal Profession (ACSEAL).
On behalf of Mr Jones, legal proceedings have been initiated in the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) against the Council for Legal Education (CLE), the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED), for the infringement of his rights, as a national of Trinidad and Tobago, to access vocational training in the Region in order to become an Attorney-at-Law, eligible to practice within CARICOM Member States.