CANSEC 2024 Brings Caribbean Security Leaders Closer Together

U.S. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), speaks during the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) 2024, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, December 11, 2024. CANSEC brought together defense and security leaders from 16 nations to discuss cooperation to counter threats in the Caribbean and strengthen regional disaster response. (Photo: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist First Class Samantha Oblander)

Caribbean defense and security leaders pose for a group photo for CANSEC 2024 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, December 11, 2024. (Photo: Luis Villegas/Diálogo)

Dr. William Godnick, dean of Academic Affairs of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, hosts the first discussion, “Countering Threats across Multi-Domains with Current Technologies,” during CANSEC, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, December 11, 2024. (Photo: Luis Villegas/Diálogo)

Air Vice-Marshal Darryl Daniels (L), chief of Defence Staff of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, sitting beside U.S. Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey (R), SOUTHCOM commander, thanks attendees for their commitment to the region during closing remarks at CANSEC, December 11, 2024. (Photo: Luis Villegas/Diálogo)

U.S. Army Colonel Eldridge Singleton (R), commandant of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), presents a token to Brigadier General Azariel Loria, commander of the Belize Defence Force, at CANSEC, in Trinidad and Tobago, December 12, 2024. (Photo: Luis Villegas/Diálogo)