In 2006, CARICOM Ministers responsible for IP adopted a Resolution calling for the establishment of a regional framework on TK, TCE’s and GR’s.
A Caribbean Working Group was created at a Regional Expert meeting held in March 2008 in Kingston, Jamaica with a mandate to undertake, with the assistance of WIPO, research, fact-finding and consultation (with local and indigenous communities, government officials, non-government organisations, users and other relevant stake-holders) in order to develop the harmonized framework for review by Caribbean Member States.
The Working Group may be contacted at aricomtkwg@googlegroups.com [1]