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Achieving Sustainability in Regions with Extractive Industry

For Release Upon Receipt - May 8, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago – The extractive sector - the mining, quarrying, dredging, oil and gas extraction industries - plays an important role in the global economic landscape, contributing significantly to the GDP of its host countries. These industries are capable of contributing to the sustainable development of communities and to the wider economy when interventions are implemented, taking into consideration the rights of the people most affected.  

Within this context, the University of the West Indies (UWI) Trade & Economic Development Unit (TEDU) is staging a conference entitled “Achieving Sustainability in Regions with Extractive Industry,” on Friday June 14, 2013, from 9am. The conference will inform stakeholders in the community and in the wider economy of the benefits of a stakeholder approach to development planning. More specifically, it will bring together local, regional and international experts in the field of sustainability in regions with extractive industries, to present the ‘best practices’ associated with the development challenges peculiar to these regions, and to enhance overall governance processes for regions with extractive industries. Key speaker is the Honourable Dr. Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development.   

A 3D Poster competition for secondary school students, sponsored by the Caribbean Local Economic Development project, will also provide a medium for young people to voice their opinion, highlighting and encouraging sustainable development in communities that house extractive industries. Prizes for this competition will also be presented at the conference.

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For more about the TEDU conference, click http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/13/ted/index.asp.  

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.) 

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