UWI’s In­sti­tute of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions (IIR) at the St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus col­lab­o­rat­ed with the CARI­COM Sec­re­tari­at to host the ground-break­ing “CARI­COM at Fifty” events on April 14, en­vi­sion­ing a fu­ture of seam­less in­te­gra­tion.

It comes as the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) com­mem­o­rates its 50th an­niver­sary.

Delv­ing in­to 50 years of CARI­COM his­to­ry, the sym­po­sium was a space of re­flec­tion, ig­nit­ing pro­found dis­cus­sions on the path tra­versed and the path that lies ahead.

Dr. Amery Browne, Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs and Dr. Acol­la Lewis Cameron, Dean of UWI’s Fac­ul­ty of So­cial Sci­ences were both in at­ten­dance.

With the glob­al and re­gion­al land­scape grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly in­tri­cate, both Min­is­ter Browne and Dr. Lewis Cameron un­der­scored the in­dis­pens­able role of CARI­COM in dri­ving Caribbean in­te­gra­tion. Against the back­drop of for­mi­da­ble de­vel­op­ment chal­lenges, The UWI and the IIR be­come cat­a­lysts of re­flec­tion and di­a­logue, for­ti­fy­ing re­gion­al ef­forts and pro­pelling CARI­COM’s po­si­tion as a pre­em­i­nent re­gion­al mech­a­nism.