The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) convened a meeting with Tourism Authorities of Trinidad and Tobago to facilitate dialogue on cooperation activities. From left to right: Mr. Oscar Brathwaite, Administrator, Secretary of Tourism and Transport, Tobago House of Assembly (THA); Mr. Julio Eduardo Orozco Pérez, Director of Sustainable Tourism (DST) of the ACS; Ms. Donna Ferraz, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Mr. Keith Chin, Chief Executive Officer, Trinidad and Tobago Tourism Development Company Limited (TDC)

Mr. Alberto Duran, Director of Trade Development and External Economic Relations of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) presents on Trade Facilitation Projects during a Roundtable Dialogue organised by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on December 8th, 2014.
The Roundtable, initiated by the IDB provides a forum for constructive discussion on trade facilitation agendas with a view to identifying opportunities for collaboration and engagement between countries and between organisations.
The IDB continues to support Trade Facilitation initiatives by the ACS as seen at the VI Summit of Heads of State and/or Government where the bank committed to continue and further develop work done in the areas of maritime transport, port connectivity and trade.

Chargé d’affaires a.i., Ms. Natasha George received a courtesy visit from Dr. Michael Freudenberg, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and Mr. Rudiger Lotz, Director for Caribbean and Central American Affairs at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin

The second workshop on “Anticipating Skills Requirements: Occupational Trends and Emerging Demands in Tourism” was convened at the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) Headquarters in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on December 8th, 2014. The workshop is a joint collaboration between the ACS, the International Labour Organization (ILO) Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean, Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (ILO/ CINTERFOR) and the National Industrial Training Service (SENAI). The meeting concluded a seven-month virtual training programme with representatives form National Training Agencies (NTAs) and Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET).

From left to right: Mr. Julio Orozco, Director of Sustainable Tourism of the ACS; Mr. Giovanni di Cola, Director, ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean and Mr. Enrique Deibe, Director, Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training.