Located in Bridgetown, Barbados, the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is an Inter-Governmental Organisation among the fifteen Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). It is the successor to the Caribbean Common Market Standards Council (CCMSC), and supports the CARICOM mandate in the expansion of intra-regional and extra-regional trade in goods and services. CROSQ is the regional centre for promoting efficiency and competitive production in goods and services, through the process of standardization and the verification of quality. It is mandated to represent the interest of the region in international hemispheric standards work, to promote the harmonization of metrology systems and standards, and to increase the pace of development of regional standards for the sustainable production of goods and services in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and the enhancement of social and economic development. |
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| Standards Bureau in Bahamas Moving Forward
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Friday, 27 August 2010 10:54
THE CARICOM body charged with overseeing regional standards and quality for traded goods and services is this week conducting a mission to this nation to assess "how the Bahamas could set up" its own Standards Bureau, the senior official co-ordinating the visit telling Tribune Business that its establishment was "closer than it was 10 years ago".
Alpheus Forbes, deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, confirmed that the Caribbean Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) is staging a week-long mission to the Bahamas, meeting with the private sector, plus the Government and social organisations, to discuss establishing a Bahamas Bureau of Standards.
The Bahamas signed up to CROSQ membership under the former Christie-led PLP administration, but has never created its own formal Standards Bureau, as demanded by legislation passed during the previous government's 2002-2007 tenure. This means that the Standards Act, while passed into law, has never been enforced. |
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| Bahamas National Technical Sub-Committee launched for Building Standards Project
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Friday, 27 August 2010 11:29
The Bahamas Ministry of Labour and Social Development, in conjunction with the CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standard and Quality (CROSQ), launched the Bahamas National Technical Sub-Committee for The Regional Building Standards Project on 23 August 2010, at the Governor's Suite British Colonial Hilton. The launch was held during a week-long mission conducted by CROSQ to discuss establishing a Bahamas Standards Bureau.
Pictured from left to right: Mr Michael Wood, Project Coordinator, CROSQ/CDB Caribbean Building Standards Project; Mrs Barbara Burrows, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Development; Dr. Michael Seepersaud, Project Manager, CROSQ/IDB SME and RQI Projects; Dr. Vyjayanthi Lopez, Chief Executive Officer, CROSQ; and Mr Alphaeus Forbes, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Social Development. (Photo courtesy of BIS/Derek Smith). |
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