Montserrat's Director of Energy Appointed Chair of Executive Board of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE)

Montserrat’s Director of Energy has been elected as Chairman of the Executive Board of the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (CCREEE). 

Kenrick Burke assumes the chairmanship following the December 2020 appointment of Mrs Francine Blackman, Barbados’ then representative to the CCREEE Executive Board.

The CCREEE Executive Board is tasked with provision of strategic guidance for the Centre, including reviewing the CCREEE’s annual work programmes and budget for approval by the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED); approving regional sustainable energy and energy-related projects and supporting the implementation of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Roadmap and Strategy (C-SERMS), among other functions. 

The Executive Board, under Mr Burke’s leadership, will continue guiding the CCREEE’s operations through 2022.

Burke is being supported by Mr Andrew Gittens, Permanent Secretary - Energy in Barbados’ Ministry of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, as the Board’s Vice Chair.  

Other members of the CCREEE Executive Board remain, as appointed last December: Dr Mahendra Sharma of Guyana; Ms Denise Tulloch of Jamaica; Mr Heinz Habertheuer, representing the Austrian Development Agency (ADA); Ms Rana Ghoneim, representing United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO); Dr Albert Binger, representing SIDS DOCK; Mr Joseph Cox, representing the CARICOM Secretariat and, Ms Danielle Evanson, representing COTED.