BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – A former senior official of the Division of Marine Assets in St. Kitts-and Nevis, Dr. Thomas Marc Xavier Williams, has assumed the place of govt director of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) Secretariat.
Williams takes over from Mr. Milton Haughton, who retired in December 2024 after having served the CRFM since its inauguration in 2003.
A CRFM assertion mentioned that constructing upon the inspiration established over the previous 20 years, Williams will now lead the cost for offering technical, consultative, and advisory companies to 17 member states within the improvement, evaluation, administration, and conservation of marine and different aquatic sources.
He will even be liable for spearheading bilateral and worldwide engagements on behalf of the area’s fisheries and aquaculture sector.
The CRFM mentioned that he’s now in Good, France, representing the regional company on the UN Ocean Convention, which started on Monday and the place he’s scheduled to ship a keynote presentation at a aspect occasion to be hosted by the Antigua and Barbuda authorities on “Blueprints for the Future: Marine Spatial Planning, Financing, Ocean Information-Pushed Choice Making & World Cooperation,”
The CRFM says that Williams comes eminently certified for the brand new place, having served his nation for greater than 14 years, and that his breadth of information and expertise additionally displays his tenure because the 2019-2020 Chair of the Caribbean Fisheries Discussion board. This CRFM physique determines the technical and scientific work of the Secretariat.
Williams earned his Doctorate of Enterprise Administration Diploma from the US-based William Howard Taft College in 2020 and can be the holder of a Grasp of Enterprise Administration Diploma in Monetary Administration from Metropolis College in Washington.
