Last Updated on Friday, 24 April 2026, 22:35 by Writer
The Centre for International and Border Studies (CIBS), a think tank based in Georgetown, Guyana will next month brainstorm several regional and global issues facing Guyana and the Caribbean.
The organisation says it will hold a conference on May 14 and 15 at the Herdmanston Lodge in Georgetown.
The hybrid event will be held under the theme, “Navigating The Future: Guyana, the Caribbean and Latin America in a Changing Global Environment”.
The conference will interrogate issues including regional integration, sustainable development, the changing hemispheric geopolitical landscape and other current international issues.
Presenters will include U.S. academic Dr. Scott McDonald and Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, former UN official and University of Guyana Chancellor, UWI lecturers Drs. Kai-Ann Skeete, Marlon Anatol and Jacqueline LaGuardia-Martinez, and Brazilian professors Paulo Correa of the Federal University of Amapa and Ambere Freitas of Roraima, Brazil.
Other panelists include Carl Greenidge, Neville Bissember, Drs. Ulric Trotz , Clement Henry and Mark Kirton, who currently serves as the director of the think tank.
CIBS’ membership includes academics, professionals and practitioners from Latin America and the Caribbean, United States, Asia and Africa.
