Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary-General Edwin W Carrington and Heads of CARICOM regional institutions will convene their Third Meeting this Thursday and Friday at the CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown.

The Heads of institutions will explore avenues for strengthening functional cooperation among their organisations through the sharing of programmes and policies, greater use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the development of human resources.

On the first day, the Heads of the Institutions will meet in six Sectoral Clusters namely, Agriculture and Food Security; Air Transportation; Climate Change; Security; Water Management and Human Resource Development. Their reports will be reviewed the next day, with emphasis expected to be placed on actions taken since their 2008 meeting, and plans towards fulfilling the mandates arising from the recent 30th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government.

Thirty one institutions are expected to be represented at the meeting.