The Caricom Secre-tariat will be hosting a national workshop for customs and border control officers on Multilateral Environ-mental Agreements (MEAs) and their enforcement from March 24 to 26.
The session is being delivered under the Project for Capacity-Building related to in African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries in partnership with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). It is expected that there will be approximately 35 participants from the Customs Department, Ministry of Environment, the Guyana Hydrometeoro-logical Department, the Environmental Protec-tion Agency, and related organisations, a statement from the Caricom Secretariat said. There will also be expert presenters from the Basel Convention Regio-nal Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean. The meeting will be held in the GRA’s Training Room at its Camp Street office.
According to Project Coordinator, Caribbean Hub Capacity Building ACP-MEAs, Dr Thérèse Yarde, the workshop is targeted specifically at Customs Officers and Border Controls officials, to raise their awareness about their role in enforcing MEAs that are intended to control trade in environmentally sensitive commodities, such as hazardous chemicals, GMOs, endangered species of
