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Published:Friday | March 1, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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From left: Colin Young, International Maritime Organization Caribbean regional maritime adviser, Trinidad and Tobago, Kim Clarke, president of the Shipping Association of Jamaica, and Jodi Munn-Barrow, secretary general, Caribbean Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control, share lens time at a cocktail reception for the Regional Transport Ministers Symposium at the Iberostar Beach Resort and Spa, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
From left: Elissa Gibson, Belize Port Authority, Evan McArthur Gumbs, minister of infrastructure, government of Anguilla, Edmond Castro, minister in the Ministry of State of Works and Transport, Belize Port Authority, and Carolyn Graham, registrar of seafarers, Maritime Authority of Jamaica.
A picture of relaxation are, from left: Louis Halley, Department of Civil Aviation and Shipping and Maritime Affairs, Saint Maarten, Albert Peter, Dominica Maritime Administration, Ministry of Public Works, Energy and Ports, Claudius Carty, Department of Civil Aviation and Shipping and Maritime Affairs, Saint Maarten, and Ian Evans, Grenada Ports Authority, Grenada. - Photos by Janet Silvera
Rear Admiral (ret'd) Peter Brady (left), director general, Maritime Authority of Jamaica, and Koji Sekimizu, secretary general, International Maritime Organization, at a cocktail reception at the Iberostar Beach hotel last Thursday night.
Dr Omar Davies, minister of transport, housing and works, Rear Admiral (ret'd) Peter Brady, director general, Maritime Authority of Jamaica, and Ambassador Dwight Gardiner, Antigua and Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping, at a cocktail reception at the Iberostar Beach Resort and Spa last Thursday night.
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They met by day to discuss maritime issues, but by night, participants from some 20 countries across the Caribbean were fêted by their Jamaican counterparts at the Iberostar Resort and Spa, Montego Bay.

Last Thursday, senior maritime administrators and a number of government transport ministers shed their ties, accepting the fact that visiting Jamaica's tourism capital without savouring the rum, rhythm and food was akin tosacrilege.

Today brings you highlights of the High Level Symposium (HLS) of Regional Ministers of Transport cocktail reception at the Montego Bay resort.

In the past, the event has been known to result in the strengthening of the institutional and legislative framework of fledgling maritime administrations in the region, as well as human capacity building.

janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com