Professor Stephen Vascianne, Head of the Department of Government at the UWI, Mona Campus has been elected President of the Caribbean Conference on Maritime Delimitation for the period 2005 – 2007. The Caribbean Conference on Maritime Delimitation is an inter-governmental group with membership drawn from all countries in the Caribbean and countries that have territories in the Caribbean. The conference considers technical questions concerning the delimitation of maritime boundaries in the Caribbean Sea and provides guidance on the administration of a trust fund that has been established to finance maritime delimitation among Caribbean states. Under the 1982 law of the sea convention, all countries in the Caribbean are entitled to claim an exclusive economic zone, in addition to a territorial sea and a continental shelf. These Maritime areas will overlap with each other in several parts of the Caribbean Sea and this creates the need for maritime delimitation. The Caribbean Conference seeks to ensure that all countries have access to expertise in the application of the law to their particular situation.