Caribbean Telecommunications Union

Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU)

Abbreviation| CTU
Formation| 1989
Headquarters| Trinidad and Tobago

Secretary General

| Rodney Taylor

President

| Hassell Bacchus
Website| www.ctu.int

The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) is an intergovernmental organization established by CARICOM in 1989, to facilitate development of the telecommunications sector in the Caribbean.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Governance
* 1.1 Secretaries-general
* 2 Regional initiatives
* 2.1 Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIGF)
* 2.2 Other initiatives
* 3 Member states
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Governance

### Secretaries-general

Name  | Years

|

Deoraj Ramnarine  | 1990–1994[3]
Roderick Sanatan  | 1994–1999[3]
Laurent Justinian Coipel  | 2000–2002[3]
Bernadette Lewis  | 2003–2020[3]
Rodney Taylor  | 2021–present[3]

## Regional initiatives

### Caribbean Internet Governance Forum (CIGF)

In 2005, the CTU and the CARICOM Secretariat initiated the CIGF as a regional, multi-stakeholder, annual forum. As part of the 18th CIGF in 2022, the CTU hosted the inaugural Small Island Developing States Internet Governance Forum (SIDS IGF) in Trinidad and Tobago.[4]

### Other initiatives

* Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme (CARCIP)
* Caribbean Spectrum Planning and Management Project
* Caribbean Centre of Excellence
* Caribbean ICT Roadshow
* ICT for Persons with Disabilities
* Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG)

## Member states

* Anguilla
* Antigua and Barbuda
* The Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* The British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Grenada
* Guyana
* Jamaica
* Montserrat
* St. Kitts and Nevis
* St. Lucia
* St. Maarten
* St. Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* The Turks and Caicos Islands

Between September and October 2022, 13 of the CTU member states participated in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) in Bucharest, Romania.[5]

## See also

* African Telecommunications Union (ATU)
* Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT)
* Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
* Caribbean Postal Union (CPU)
* European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
* Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL)
* Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal

## References

1. ↑ "Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU)". Brussels, Belgium: Union of International Associations. 2024. https://uia.org/s/or/en/1100004677
2. ↑ "Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU)" (in en-US). https://caricom.org/institutions/caribbean-telecommunications-union-ctu/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 CTU - Governance
4. ↑ "Caribbean to host Internet Governance Forum" (in en-US). 2022-07-24. https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/caribbean-to-host-internet-governance-forum/.
5. ↑ "SKNVibes | High-Level Caribbean Delegation Advance Region’s ICT agenda at ITU meeting in Romania". https://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/120021.

## External links

* Official website

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