UWI CONSULTING BEGINS WORK ON UNEP BIOSAFETY FRAMEWORK PROJECT 

UWI CONSULTING has entered into an agreement with UNEP  Regional Office for Latin America and Caribbean in Panama City to support the implementation of Bio-safety Frameworks in Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Barbados, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Guyana and Suriname.  Dr. Norma McFarlane Anderson, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, UWI, Mona Campus is UWI Consulting’s Project Manager. Dr. McFarlane Anderson will oversee the work of locally recruited consultants and will guide the preparation of a project document that is expected to result in the establishment of a regional bio-safety institution.

Senior Consultants on this project are Dr. Wayne McLaughlin of UWI Mona Campus and Mr. George de Berdt Romilly of Nova Scotia, Canada. They will work closely with Dr. Leonard O’Garro of UNEP Barbados. The exercise will be concluded 20 August 2009.

11 May 2009