The ceremony featured the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between OLADE and the Government of Jamaica, with OLADE officials underscoring that the new subregional office was part of the Permanent Secretariat's mandate from the OLADE Ministers to "sub-regionalize" the OLADE work program.
The new Caribbean office will serve nine OLADE member States: Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
August 2012: The Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) opened a subregional office for the Caribbean in formal ceremony held in Kingston Harbor, Jamaica, on 14 August 2012.
The ceremony featured the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between OLADE and the Government of Jamaica, with OLADE officials underscoring that the new subregional office was part of the Permanent Secretariat’s mandate from the OLADE Ministers to “sub-regionalize” the OLADE work program. The Caribbean office is OLADE’s second subregional office, with the first created for Central America in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The new Caribbean office will serve nine OLADE member States: Barbados, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
Phillip Paulwell, Jamaican Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, suggested that the subregional office will improve the Caribbean profile, enhance collaboration among Caribbean states on energy issues, enhance the ability of Caribbean states to attract finance from other regional and international organizations to support energy plans, programs and projects, and offer greater technical and institutional capacity building opportunities for OLADE member States in the Caribbean. He also suggested that the subregional office will become a center of energy information sharing and dissemination, strategic analysis and forecasting and channeling technical assistance on energy among Caribbean States. [OLADE Press Release] [Statement of Minister Paulwell]