Countries Seeking to Protect the Caribbean Sea

Barbados, along with the Caribbean and Latin America, is seeking to get the Caribbean Sea recognized by the United Nations (UN) as a protected area for sustainable development.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business Donville Inniss stressed the point both yesterday and Monday at the Association of Caribbean States’ (ACS) Seventh Meeting of the Caribbean Sea Commission.

The first day of the meeting was held at Sherbourne Conference Centre, Two-Mile Hill, and continued yesterday at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, St Michael.

The 25-member ACS conference was to draft a resolution to have the waterway protected from environmental pollution, any accidents at sea involving ships carrying nuclear waste and the consequences of other man-made disasters.