The ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean, based in Trinidad & Tobago since 1969, serves the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean.
Port of Spain, Trinidad
Joined October 2014
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💜Caring responsibilities should not limit employment opportunities. On #CareAndSupportDay, we are reminded that ILO Convention 156 promotes equal opportunities for those who work and have family responsibilities.
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Investing in care and support advances gender equality and social justice.
#CareAndSupportDay #DecentWork #SocialJustice
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On #CareAndSupportDay, the @ilo calls for investment in comprehensive, rights-based care and support, and for all care workers to be adequately protected and remunerated.
It’s time to make decent work a reality for all care workers.
On International Day of Care and Support, let us commit to make decent work a reality for all care workers.
Care work, including domestic work, is essential for our societies and our economies.
And all care workers deserve decent work, dignity, and respect.
#CareAndSupportDay
Mexico’s Ambassador to Haiti, H.E. José de Jesús Cisneros Chávez, visited the ILO PROFIT Project in Grand’Anse on 20–22 October, exploring a partnership to open North American markets for Haitian cocoa and breadfruit. 🇭🇹🇲🇽
Funded by Norway 🇳🇴, PROFIT has supported 250 tonnes of fair trade cocoa exports to Europe in 3 years, 10,000 producers on a traceability platform, and some 200 decent green jobs so far, with 4,000 expected by 2027. projetprofit.org #DecentWork #Haiti
Financé par la Norvège 🇳🇴, PROFIT a appuyé l’export de 250 tonnes de cacao équitable vers l’Europe en 3 ans, la traçabilité de 10 000 producteurs et 200 emplois verts et décents à ce jour, 4 000 étant attendus d’ici 2027. projetprofit.org #TravailDécent #Haïti
L’Ambassadeur du Mexique en Haïti, S.E. M. José de Jesús Cisneros Chávez, a visité le projet PROFIT de l’OIT en Grand’Anse du 20 au 22 octobre, en vue d’un partenariat pour ouvrir les marchés nord-américains au cacao et au fruit à pain haïtiens. 🇭🇹🇲🇽
The countdown begins
57 years of the ILO in the Caribbean.
From the milestones that shaped our history to the work transforming lives today, join us as we look back, celebrate how far we’ve come, and look ahead.
20 October. The countdown starts now. #ILOCaribbean57
Happy 57th Anniversary ILO Caribbean 🎉
For 57 years we have worked alongside governments, employers, workers and communities across the Caribbean to advance decent work.
The world of work will keep changing.
So will we.
Here’s to the work ahead. #ILOCaribbean57
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📰 ILO Caribbean Newslink Sep 2026
From community-led development to labour reform, the issue explores new approaches to labour justice, skills, investment and productivity, plus research on tourism and informality.
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Work is about people
Ruth Hylton, Things Jamaica 1974.
Lynette Ann Durham and Kathleen Hinkson, Long Service Awards, 2005.
Women of Guyana’s fisheries, GET Ahead certified, 2026.
#ILOCaribbean57
Migration, informality, the future of work
2008: unions meet on what CSME will mean for workers.
2023: Labour Ministers name migration a priority.
2026: informality in Eastern Caribbean tourism found structural.
The economy moves. Who saw it coming? #ILOCaribbean57 @CARICOMorg
Social protection is not one thing
Sickness. Injury. Unemployment. Disability. Old age.
1976: Dominica’s scheme begins.
2018: Guyana reviews its NIS.
2024: Suriname validates a national strategy.
2026: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines modernizes OSH law.
#ILOCaribbean57
Day 2: What change? Participants built the results chain from inputs to impact, developed a theory of change and worked on outcomes, indicators, baselines and targets. Haiti’s delegation began mapping its institutions for national social dialogue. #DecentWork #DWCP
Decent Work by Design: from 12 to 15 Oct 2026, the ILO and Saint Lucia’s Department of Labour held a four-day DWCP Capacity Lab with Haiti and Suriname. Four days, four questions: Why? What change? How will we know? What will we do with the evidence? #DecentWork
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ALT Hon. Emma Hippolyte, Minister for Labour, Co-operatives and Consumer Affairs, opening the DWCP Capacity Lab in Saint Lucia on 12 Oct 2026.
ALT Joni Musabayana, Director, ILO Caribbean Office, at the opening of the DWCP Capacity Lab, in Saint Lucia on 12 Oct 2026.
ALT Julian Monrose, President, Saint Lucia Trade Union Federation, opening the DWCP Capacity Lab in Saint Lucia on 12 Oct 2026.
ALT Workshop participants during the opening the DWCP Capacity Lab in Saint Lucia on 12 Oct 2026.
One mission, three countries. A first-of-its-kind ILO DWCP Capacity Lab: Suriname shared monitoring lessons, Saint Lucia began shaping DWCP oversight through its tripartite committee, and Haiti mapped a path to stronger social dialogue. #DecentWork #SouthSouthCooperation
Three voices at the opening of Saint Lucia’s DWCP Capacity Lab: Government, the ILO and workers on what the country’s Decent Work Country Programme must deliver. Real improvement in people’s lives, a shared understanding & a greater say. #DecentWork #SocialDialogue @jonitokomusa
Day 4: What will we do with the evidence? Participants worked through the NTAC Decision Ladder, simulated a DWCP oversight committee meeting and worked on an Oversight Charter, before closing with reflections and certificates. #DecentWork #SaintLucia
Day 3: How will we know? Monitoring for performance, not just activity. Suriname’s DWCP Monitoring Commission shared lessons in a peer-learning clinic, and participants mapped Saint Lucia’s monitoring architecture and a DWCP performance dashboard. #SouthSouth
A cooperative is a business owned by the people in it
1970s: one of the ILO’s first major Caribbean projects.
2025: the Cipriani College Cooperation Agreement renewed.
2026: fisherfolk cooperatives in Guyana.
Cooperatives change lives, build communities. #ILOCaribbean57
Did you know Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles have all issued stamps marking the ILO? #ILOCaribbean57 #DecentWork
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