The aim of the report is to outline a framework for the reformulation and reinvention of the CARIFESTA festival. The report is divided into two main sections: a strategic review and analysis and the articulation of the strategic plan. The report has focused on analyzing the history, context and prognosis of the CARIFESTA festival. The strategic analysis suggests that the festival is uncompetitive in the regional and international context and no longer fulfilling its mandate and consequently is ripe for change.
Belize
The CARICOM Secretariat’s Education Programme ensures inclusive, equitable, quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for the Region. As part of this responsibility, the Programme has developed a Human Resource Development 2030 Strategy, which is currently being implemented.
Carla Natalie Barnett PhD CBE has been selected as the 8 Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and she will assume office on August 15, 2021. th Dr. Barnett is an economist who has worked across the English-speaking Caribbean and had broken several barriers along the way. She was the first woman to be appointed as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Belize (1991-1996). She was the first woman, and youngest person to be appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of CARICOM (1997-2002); and the first woman to be appointed as Financial Secretary in Belize (2004-2007).
“His passion for the Caribbean cradled the Central American State of Belize into the arms of the Community” – words of introduction in the citation given for the Rt. Honourable George Cadle Price, “Father of the Nation” of Belize and OCC Awardee of 2001.
The political record of this great statesman dates back to CARIFTA, the precursor of the Caribbean Community.