WOMEN IN MARITIME

Meet Valrie Campbell, General Manager – Group Operations, Kingston Wharves Ltd..  By Mike Jarrett When Valrie Campbell arrived in Kingston with her mother, the bright,...

Barriers preventing employment of women should be removed By Rawle Baddaloo Women have been employed in the maritime sector for an extremely long time. While it...

Gender equality will ultimately characterise the future of global maritime trade By Deniece M. Aiken* Sustainability of the maritime industry has, in recent times, been identified...

Should the Caribbean be concerned? The era of globalisation, towards the end of the 20th Century, produced more development thrust and wealth for impoverished countries...

 NEEDED: a strategic approach to promote gender equality to ensure that women gain equal access to opportunities for advancement By Deniece M. Aiken* ‘Shipping is as...

... concern that the rapid global expansion and gains in alleviation of poverty from which the Caribbean and other former European colonies benefited could...

ONLY WOMEN ON DECK All women crew ‘mans’ Monte Cristi 2018, November 1: It was a moment in history that was bound to be, when superstition...

2015 June: A new chapter in Caribbean maritime history was started in Montego Bay Jamaica in mid-April 2015. Forty-seven women from 14 countries quietly converged on the Holiday Inn Sunspree hotel and for five days engaged in discussions about development, empowerment, capacity building and progress. When they emerged on April 17, the first pages of a new era in regional maritime development had been written.