KINGSTON, Jamaica - Dr Arnoldo Ventura, professor at The Mico University College, has been invited by the Prime Minister responsible for Science and Technology in CARICOM, Dr Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada, to serve on the CARICOM Committee for Science, Technology and Innovation.
The first meeting of this committee will take place in Grenada in January 2014 and will see Professor Ventura and other representatives of academia in the Caribbean, serving as an advisory body to the prime minister. The advisory body will see to the promotion of the development of science and technology in CARICOM as a tool for economic development by working closely with all scientific organisations in the region, among other things.
Ventura is also part of a team which was formed by Professor Claude Packer, president of Mico, to establish the college's Institute of Technological and Educational Research (ITER), headed by Professor Edwin Jones.