BELIZE CITY–Vivian Belisle-Remnarace and Rigoberto Quintana of the Belize Fisheries Department will be among 18 senior fisheries officers and marine management experts from 10 member countries of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) to take part in the 2014 CARICOM Fisheries Law and Management Training Workshop to be held from Monday, September 1, to Friday, October 3, 2014, at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.
The training workshop, the second training workshop for fisheries personnel from CARICOM countries, is funded by the Government of Australia through the Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship Programme. This program aims to enhance the capacity of regional fisheries administration through training in areas such as international fisheries and environmental law, marine resource conservation and management, and monitoring, control and surveillance.
The 5-week training workshop is a collaborative initiative between the CRFM and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources & Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong. 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, when the first group of 16 officers from nine CARICOM countries was trained in Australia.
Apart from the two Belize participants, the other participants this year are Ms. Trecia Lovell of Antigua and Barbuda, 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.
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