Today we invite you to join Diplomats Without Borders and Caribbean Policy Consortium to discuss with a panel of experts how sovereignty and security challenges in the Caribbean correlate with resilience and development challenges and what opportunities exist and can be advanced so the region can move from a place of no/low growth and a weakened developmental trajectory towards a sustainable development future.

Date: Wednesday, June 24th, 2026

Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern Time

Opening Remarks           

Ms. Roberta Clarke, DWB & Dr. David E. Lewis, Co-Chair, CPC

Featured Speakers

·        Mr. Julian Rogers MBE, Journalist, and Media Manager, Caribbean Bridges

·        Ambassador Wayne McCook, Assistant Secretary General, CARICOM

·        Prof. Justin Robinson, University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus

·        Hon. Marsha Caddle Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning, Barbados

·        Ambassador (Ret.) Phillip Hughes, CPC Fellow

Moderator

Ms. Roberta Clarke, DWB

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Weblinks

–        Diplomats Without Borders: https://www.diplomatswb.org/

             –     Caribbean Policy Consortium: https://cpccaribbean.org/

Presentation: Julian Rogers – Resilience_Trap_Deck – DWB-CPC Webinar – June 24 2026.pptx

Date: June 10th, 2026

Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern Time

Opening Remarks

Dr. Rebecca Reichmann Tavares, Vice Chairman, DWB

Dr. David Lewis, Chairman, CPC

Featured Speakers

• Ambassador (Ret.) Phillip Hughes, CPC

• Dr. Helder Da Costa, Secretary General, G7+

• Prof. Justin Robinson, University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus

Moderator

Ambassador (Ret.) Riyad Insanally, DWB/CPC

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qSWf7ddhQVmUOP4rhaVyTw

Websites:

Diplomats Without Borders: https://www.diplomatswb.org/

Caribbean Policy Consortium: https://cpccaribbean.org/

Join us on March 16, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. for the second installment of the 2025-2026 LACC & CPC Webinar Series.

Rising sea levels, hurricanes, and floods have become defining features of the environmental security landscape of the Caribbean, with global warming aggravating the circumstances of some countries. This webinar reflects on the region’s environmental security scene for 2026, particularly the hurricanes that impacted Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas, and other islands, the floods in Guyana and Suriname, and wildfires in Belize. Attention will be paid to the socio-economic impact of global warming and climate financing.

PANELISTS
Dr. Scott MacDonald, Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium, and chief economist at Smith’s Research & Gradings
Dr. Keron Niles, Lecturer within the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies
Dr. Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB), and LACC Fellow 

MODERATOR: Jessica Byron-Reid, University of the West Indies, Professor Emerita and Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium, (CPC)
This event is presented in collaboration with the Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC)

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The 21st Sir Archibald Nedd Memorial Lecture was held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. This year’s lecture explored one of the most pressing issues facing the Caribbean: “The Radar Request: Sovereignty and Vulnerability in the Caribbean.”

Watch the insightful presentation delivered by Distinguished Professor and author Professor Ivelaw Griffith below:

Jul 8, 2025 06:00 PM America/Port_of_Spain

Guyana is producing oil, creating fossil fuel contributions to global warming, and at the same time it has a massive carbon sink. When the Caribbean nation of Guyana – a country of 83,000 square miles (214,969 square kilometres) situated to the north of the South American mainland – produced its first oil in December 2019, economic growth predictions skyrocketed. With the Stabroek block widely regarded as the most significant oil discovery of the past decade, with more than 11 billion recoverable barrels of oil resources, Guyana has since surpassed all projections, and much more is expected from the world’s newest petro-state. How will this extraordinary economic boon impact Guyana and its 835,000 people, and how does it mesh with the country’s well-known commitment to sustainability and climate change concerns? Professor Ivelaw L. Griffith, a former senior associate with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, fellow at the Caribbean Policy Consortium, and former vice chancellor of the University of Guyana, addresses these questions in his latest book, “Oil and Climate Change in Guyana’s Wet Neighbourhood: Probing Promise and Potential Peril.

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The Caribbean Policy Consortium and The Risk Advisory Group are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar on energy integration in the Southern Caribbean Energy Matrix countries of Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago.

Energy production is, in one way or another, crucial to the economies of Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad. Guyana is quickly becoming one of the world’s largest per-capita producers of oil with significant gas development potential. Suriname is developing its first major offshore block, while Trinidad & Tobago is looking to revitalize long-central oil and gas production and refining capacity. Two also court a green energy future and share a border. How these countries manage and organize their energy resources and infrastructure, and what opportunities they have for energy integration, have become key political questions for each country. In 2025, Guyana and Suriname have general elections, while Trinidad & Tobago held a general election on April 28. Resource development and economic prosperity remain high on the agenda. So too are thorny geopolitical issues such as Chinese economic influence, US trade and energy tariffs, Venezuelan territorial ambitions in Guyana, and a potential US security arrangement.

Join us as we discuss the Southern Caribbean Energy Matrix, a region fast becoming central to global energy security.

Webinar details
Date:
May 13, 2025
Time:
10:30 – 12:00 ET
15:30 – 17:00 BST
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Opening remarks
Dr. Scott B. MacDonald – Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium
Moderator
Brett Shearing – Associate Director, The Risk Advisory Group
Panelists
Prof. Anthony Bryan – Co-Chair, Caribbean Policy Consortium
Dr. Dax Driver– President and CEO, Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago
Dr. Norwell Hinds – Director, University of Guyana Institute for Energy Diplomacy
Dr. Riyad Insanally – Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium and former Guyanese Ambassador to the US
Rudolf Elias – Senior Advisor EY and former CEO, Staatsolie

An international panel of experts will explore the current situation of indigenous and Tribal peoples and climate change in Suriname, Guyana, Ecuador and Brazil. The discussion will address Climate Change, the rights of Indigenous and Tribal peoples.

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Lr69lZoQ_OLjmKa8pQt-FkBxvftBfINEkFN5fu0_oI8/viewform?chromeless=1&edit_requested=true

Date: 6th of May 2025

Time: 10.00 EST

Mavrick Boejoekoe: m_boejoekoe@yahoo.com

This webinar is presented in collaboration with the Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC) and Youth Education and Leadership Foundation with support from the United Nation Development Programme, Suriname.

GREEN SCHOOL

STEVEN J. GREEN SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS
KIMBERLY GREEN LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN CENTER

PANEL DISCUSSION

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2025

10:00 AM- 11:30 AM

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Trump 2.0: Policies, Practices, and Prospects for Caribbean Engagement

The transformational pursuits of the second Trump presidency for the first

three months of the administration allows for meaningful consideration of
both action already taken and the prospects for the rest of the presidential

term. This panel will undertake this in relation to the Caribbean by reflecting
on both policies and practices adopted and contemplated, with a view to

understanding the geopolitical and geoeconomic implications involved,
especially in relation to immigration, trade, energy, climate change, and
security,
PANELISTS:
Ambassador Frank Mora
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States. Professor of Politics and International Relations at FIU

Ms. Elizabeth Riley
Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, CDEMA

Dr. W. Andy Knight
Provost Fellow, Black Excellence and Leadership at the University of Alberta, Canada
MODERATORS:
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
Founding Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium and Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dr. Anthony Pereira

Director, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University

IN COLLABORATION WITH

The Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC)

FIU – Steven J. Green, School of International & Public Affairs

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Event Organizers

DIPLOMATS WITHOUT BORDERS (DWB) and the CARIBBEAN POLICY CONSORTIUM (CPC) are pleased to announce their second webinar on critical foreign policy issues for the Caribbean Community.

Our Panelists:

Hon. Perry Christie, former Prime Minister of The Bahamas and a member of CARICOM’s Eminent Persons Group on Haiti

Ms. Jacqueline Charles, Haiti/Caribbean Correspondent, The Miami Herald

Dr. Georges Fauriol, Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium and Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator: Prof. Anthony Bryan, Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium and Senior Honorary Fellow at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

You are cordially invited to register for the panel discussion on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at 10:00 – 11:30 am, ET.