BELIZE CITY - Eighteen (18) senior fisheries officers and marine management
experts from 10 member countries of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries
Mechanism (CRFM) will take part in the 2014 CARICOM Fisheries Law and
Management
Training Workshop at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales,
Australia. The training workshop is funded by the Government of
Australia
through the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship Programme.
This is the second training workshop for fisheries personnel from the
CARICOM countries. Sixteen (16) officers from nine CARICOM countries
were
trained in 2012.
The programme aims to enhance the capacity of regional fisheries
administration in CARICOM States through the provision of training in
areas such as
international fisheries and environmental law, marine resource
conservation and management, and monitoring, control and surveillance.
The five-week training workshop, which will run from Monday, September 1 to Friday, October 3, 2014,
is a collaborative initiative between the CRFM
and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security
(ANCORS) at Wollongong University. It is made possible through a
Memorandum of
Understanding which the CRFM Secretariat and ANCORS signed during the
first training workshop held in October 2012.
Participants are Ms. Trecia Lovell of Antigua and Barbuda, Ms. Vivian
Belisle-Remnarace and Mr. Rigoberto Quintata of Belize, Ms. Jeannette
Mateo and
Mr. Aramis Cespedes of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Casimir McDonald and
Mr. Francis Calliste of Grenada, Ms. Ingrid Peters and Mr. Denzil
Roberts of
Guyana, Mr. Junior Squire and Mr. Gary Isaacs of Jamaica, Mr. Samuel
Heyliger and Mr. Clive Wilkinson of St. Kitts and Nevis, Mr. Thomas
Nelson
and Mr. Vaughn Serieux of St. Lucia, Mr Kris Isaacs and Ms Cheryl
Jardine-Jackson of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Mr Zojindra
Arjune of
Suriname.