Bermuda To Host Caribbean Postal Conference

The Bermuda Post Office [BPO] announced that Bermuda will host the 17th Annual Caribbean Postal Union [CPU] Conference which will take place at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute from the September 8th to 11th, 2014.

The Premier and Minister of National Security, Michael Dunkley will formally open the conference on Monday morning.

A spokesperson said, “This will be the first time that the Caribbean Postal Union Conference has been hosted in Bermuda.

“Postal Administrations from Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Dominica, France, Haiti, Netherlands, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, and the US, will be represented at the conference.

“The theme of the conference is “Sustainability in the 21st Century” and the sub theme is “Repositioning the Caribbean Post”. The conference deliberations will examine the global challenges emanating from the electronic age in which Bermuda and Caribbean postal administrations operate, consider potential solutions to mitigate these challenges and provide options for repositioning Bermuda and Caribbean postal administrations for sustained future growth.

“In keeping with the conference theme, the Caribbean Postal Union has chosen as a conference logo, a stamp image from the Bermuda Post Office 2012 Bicentenary anniversary stamp issue which depicts a postal envelope being dismantled and carried away in the binary winds of electronic change.

“The theme for this year’s conference and its location has attracted not only interest from postal administrations in the Caribbean; it has also generated interest in the postal sector in the U.S., the European Community and the Universal Postal Union.”

“It is anticipated that the 17th Annual Caribbean Postal Union Conference will not only generate visitor revenue for the Island, it will help be the catalyst, for substantive change in the postal sector in Bermuda, throughout the Caribbean region and globally,” Major [Retired] Allan Wayne B. Smith, E.D. said.

“The decision to host this conference demonstrates that the Bermuda Post Office is thinking strategically and introducing initiatives with benefits to Bermuda far beyond mail delivery,” Mr. Smith said. Although the conference presents professional development opportunities for post office staff, this conference will also provide an influx of business travelers at a time when visitor arrivals traditionally decline, as well as a huge cash injection that our economy so desperately needs.

The spokesperson continued, “The Government is expecting approximately 50 overseas arrivals – including representatives from Caribbean Postal Union, CARICOM, the Caribbean Customs and Law Enforcement Council, the Postal Union for the Americas, Spain and Portugal. The Director General of the Universal Postal Union, Mr. Bishar Abdirahman Hussein will also be in attendance.”

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