KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC -Jamaica will host the regional launch and assembly of the Caribbean Blue Justice Hub on Friday. It goals to deal with organized crime within the fisheries sector and Unlawful Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining Minister Floyd Inexperienced will deal with the launch that will even be attended by his St. Vincent and the Grenadines counterpart, Saboto Caesar, the manager director of the Belize-based Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), Milton Haughton, in addition to the Norwegian Ambassador to the Caribbean, Beate Stirø.
Supported by the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the federal government of Norway, ‘Blue Justice Hubs’ the world over give attention to creating and sustaining capability for sensible inter-agency cooperation to deal with organized crime within the fisheries sector and Unlawful, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing, each in-country and with different international locations regionally.
The regional launch comes one 12 months after Jamaica, which had been named the regional hub for the Caribbean, launched its nationwide Multi-Company Fisheries Crime Coordinating Mechanism and introduced that it was on monitor to grow to be the ‘regional Blue Justice hub for the Caribbean,’ with the Jamaican Nationwide Fisheries Authority (NFA) as a focus.
The Blue Justice Caribbean Hub is supported by the Norwegian authorities, the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP), and the CFRM.
Friday’s launch and assembly will even be attended by the chief govt officer of the Jamaica Nationwide Fisheries Authority, Dr. Gavin Bellamy, the UNDP Regional Technical Specialist for Water, Oceans, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, AnaMaria Nunez, in addition to the UNDP Officer-In-Cost/Assistant Resident Consultant, Ava Whyte and the mission supervisor UNDP Blue Resilience, Emma Witbooi.
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