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Shantel Samuels, CEO, CZMAI
"So the Coastal Zone Management Authority and institute has been in existence for the past 26 years and each year we take some time out to host our annual coastal awareness week a very important part of what we do is to share information with stakeholders and allow the public to have an opportunity to share concerns to learn more about what's happening within our coastal zone and our coastal space and for them to also learn about the work that we do so coastal awareness week 2024 started yesterday and todays event is one of three events that we are hosting this week."

"So throughout the year we would do school visits, we would attend fairs and those would be ways in which we share the work that we do we also prepare informational pieces, videos pamphlets etc and we disseminate that to the students but just to come back to this week we have todays event which we are calling the CZMAI Ted Talk so I'm not sure if you are familiar with Ted Talks but they are these ten minutes aspirational and inspirational elevator speeches and it allows us to tell the story of CZMAI so going back in history to the 1980s and the movement that led to the formation of CZMAI and then just following our works over the last 26 years we have the various members of the CZMAI staff that head the various programs ranging from coastal planning, water quality monitoring, Goffs Caye Management, sports fishing management and marine spatial planning which is one of the newer programs. And so through their stories we are educating and informing students of the work we are doing. Some of the issues we are tackling and how we see the future of the coastal zone."