Jamaica’s Oliver Mair to function Dean of South Florida Caribbean Consular Corps

Jamaica’s Consul Common to Miami, Oliver Mair will function the Dean of the Caribbean Consular Corps in South Florida.

Making the announcement lately, Ambassador Gilbert Boustany, Consul Common of Antigua and Barbuda, and Dean of the Consular Corps of Miami, proudly acknowledged CG Mair as the primary Dean of the Caribbean Consular in over seven years.  He added that Mair’s inspirational, participating, and dynamic management has been nicely acknowledged throughout the diaspora group.

Since his appointment on the Consulate Common of Jamaica, Miami in October 2018, Mr. Mair has totally embraced the group participating in a record-breaking variety of occasions in an effort to strengthen the diaspora connection of Jamaicans throughout the 13 Southern States below his jurisdiction.  Together with Florida, these embrace Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolinas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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Mr. Mair has obtained a number of awards for his excellent and artistic management qualities by native and regional our bodies together with the US Senate Congressional Award for the Diaspora and International Group.  He was additionally acknowledged Man of the Yr-2020, an award he shared collectively with Barbados Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, Lady of the Yr-2020, by the Caribbean Nationwide Weekly (CN Weekly), a number one South Florida newspaper and on-line media.

Alongside together with his Caribbean counterparts, his emphasis on group engagement is obvious within the varied outreach actions through which the Caribbean Consular Corps have been in a position to present help in areas affected by pure disasters together with hurricanes in Belize, The Bahamas, and the volcano in St. Vincent.

his has additionally been prolonged to Caribbean nationals affected in areas within the Southern US area.  The Consular Corps was additionally instrumental in management as they rose to offering help to their Caribbean nationals at residence and regionally, who have been affected through the COVID-19 pandemic.   Through the pandemic the Corps was in a position to purchase giant shipments of non-public protecting gear (PPE) for the area.   These included containers of masks/shields and sanitizers for private and industrial use.

Relating to the Jamaican diaspora, Consul Common Mair continues to interact nationals in tasks to learn the Jamaican financial system in addition to the native communities within the Southern USA.

These embrace outreach actions together with the Jamaica Inventory Market, tourism, agriculture, and actual property which purpose to focus on funding alternatives in Jamaica and within the diaspora.  Via varied fundraising initiatives, the Consulate continues to work intently with charitable organizations together with alumni associations producing a lot want assets to Jamaica particularly within the areas of well being, training, and tradition.

The Jamaican Consulate Common is certainly one of a number of Florida primarily based Consulates below which the fraternity of the Caribbean Consular Corps was established. The Florida Consular Corps is the third largest diplomatic corps within the USA with over 80 nations.

The South Florida primarily based Caribbean group consists of a number of nations together with Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Getting into his new position, Mr. Mair says he appears ahead to serving together with his counterparts in areas of mutual curiosity to learn the Caribbean area and the USA of America. A few of these embrace catastrophe consciousness and preparedness, enhancing commerce and commerce, tourism, transportation, well being, and training.

“We stay up for producing nice outcomes for the person nations working collectively in unity” he mentioned. He reiterated that with larger numbers and stronger unity, much more could be achieved.