Jamaica to chair CMoU Technical Working Group
published:
Tuesday | June 20, 2006
The Jamaica Wellness Tour is now at the Holy Trinity Cathedral off North Street and will be there until June 23 offering low-cost medical tests to surrounding communities. Pictured at the launch on Monday, June 12, are: (front row, from left) Gloria Jackson, Hazel Smith, Phyllis Samuels and Mary Williams - all members of the Holy Trinity congregation; and (back row, from left) Dena Davis, director of the Rotary Club of Liguanea Plains; Michael Bernard, president of the Shipping Association of Jamaica; and Professor Errol Morrison, president of the Rotary Club of Liguanea Plains and Blue Cross Jamaica Limited. The other joint sponsor of the Jamaica Wellness Tour is the Diabetes Association of Jamaica. - CONTRIBUTED
BY UNANIMOUS decision, Jamaica was chosen to chair the Technical Standing Working Group of the Caribbean Memorandum of Understanding on port state control (CMoU) at the recently concluded meeting in Nassau, Bahamas.
The Technical Working Group is responsible for developing technical requirements governing the port state control regime of the region. This ensures uniformity across the region while offering guidelines to port state control officers who are responsible for inspecting vessels calling at their respective ports.
The CMoU is a maritime agreement governing port state control within the Caribbean. Under this regime all members are obligated to inspect a minimum of 15 per cent of foreign vessels calling at their ports. This regime was developed in order to ensure that vessels trading in Caribbean waters comply with international maritime standards of safety, security and marine pollution prevention.
This will be Jamaica's second consecutive term as chair of this the most important sub-committee of the CMoU. Chief Engineer George Lovemore, who is senior marine surveyor at the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, will be taking the reins formerly held by Captain Lennox Bailey, also of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica.
