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Seafarers need better support

Seafarers need better support * … says Capt. Rawle Baddaloo, Co-Leader CARIBMEPA 2021, August 1: I cannot say Happy World Seafarers Day as it is far from happy. Seafarers are key workers and they need

NEW DAWN, NEW NORMAL – The Human Impact

2021, April 2: COVID-19 IS NOT THE WORLD’S FIRST PANDEMIC and certainly not the deadliest. It is, however, the most widespread and disruptive the world has ever seen. The reason is simple: a global ec

NEW DAWN NEW NORMAL: IMO Support in post-pandemic Caribbean

Seafarers at the core of shipping’s future ◊ Ratification of IMO regulations still an issue BY Colin P. Young * The international maritime regulatory framework has allowed international shipping to ke

CIP: Improved disaster risk management for Caribbean ports

Improved disaster risk management for Caribbean ports 2020 December 01: Record-breaking hurricane activity in the Atlantic during 2020 emphasised the timeliness and urgency of the Improved Disaster Ri

STRANDED AT SEA: ICS sounds alarm – seafarers must be made ‘Key Workers’

2020 October 01: The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), on International Day of the Seafarer (June 25, 2020) sounded the alarm about the plight of seafarers. And, within a week, posted on its w

GLOBAL TRADE: Should the Caribbean be concerned?

... concern that the rapid global expansion and gains in alleviation of poverty from which the Caribbean and other former European colonies benefited could be halted by a return to protectionism here

Stranded at Sea: Human rights, contracts and the law during a pandemic

By Deniece M. Aiken * 2020, October 1: Governments should heed the call to protect their nationals at sea by officially according their seafarers ‘key worker’ status. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability Make them global-essential ‘Key Workers’ 2020 October 01: As the sun rose on World Maritime Day 2020, the fate of almost one mill

STRANDED AT SEA: Suicide main cause of death at sea

Suicide is now the foremost cause of deaths amongst seafarers, an “… isolated, vulnerable, and globally essential workforce.” 2020, October 1: As the global death toll from COVID-19 increased, spreadi

STRANDED AT SEA: Make the world’s seafarers Global Key Workers

Make the world’s seafarers Global Key Workers t the time of going to press, our world as we knew it changed, in some respects, radically. The current year was barely a third of the way through when it

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