Regional diplomats for two-week training

Australian Ambassador to CARICOM, Philip Kentwell (second from left), Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett (second from right), Assistant Secretary General of CARICOM, Colin Granderson (right) and one of the persons involved in the diplomat training programme at the head table at the opening ceremony yesterday.

Regional diplomats were last evening urged to be prepared to deal with the changes occurring in the region and the world as a training programme for mid-career diplomats opened here last evening.

Sixteen Caribbean diplomats are participating in the two-week programme which follows another which was held in Australia earlier this month.

The University of the West Indies and the Australian International University in 2010 had entered into an agreement to deliver an annual training programme for mid-career Caribbean diplomats following the commitment of the Australian government and the Caribbean Community to foster training for