Location: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Date of establishment: October 2004 (Framework Agreement). More SCRC nominated in 2023
By decision BC-III/19 the Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention in 1995, selected Trinidad and Tobago as a site to establish BCRC for the Caribbean sub-region. This resulted to the establishment of BCRC Caribbean in 1998 however a Framework Agreement for its establishment was signed only in 2004. In August 2022 the Centre was nominated to serve as a Stockholm Convention Regional Centre by the GRULAC region and was subsequently endorsed by the COP of Stockholm Convention in 2023 as a Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Capacity-building and Transfer of Technology for four years.
Hosted by: The Government of Trinidad and Tobago
Parties served: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines
Expertise: Capacity building, technology transfer in the areas of ESM of Hazardous wastes.
For more information visit: http://www.bcrc-caribbean.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Basel.Convention.Regional.Centre.Caribbean/Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcrc_caribbean
Director/Coordinator: Ms Jewel Batchasingh
Tel: +1 868 628 8369 / +1 868 628 9372
Fax: +1 868 628 2151
E-mail: jbatchasingh@gmail.com; info@bcrc-caribbean.org; bcrc.caribbean@gmail.com;
Address: Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean
#8 Alexandra Street, St Clair
Port-of-Spain
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago