The Roy­al In­sti­tu­tion of Char­tered Sur­vey­ors (RICS), in part­ner­ship with the In­ter­na­tion­al Prop­er­ty Tax In­sti­tute (IP­TI) and with the sup­port of the Min­istry of Fi­nance and Econ­o­my and the In­sti­tute of Sur­vey­ors of T&T, is hold­ing a two-day con­fer­ence in Port-of-Spain.

The event, at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad Ho­tel on May 22-23, will fea­ture an ar­ray of in­ter­na­tion­al ex­perts from gov­ern­ment, banks, and pri­vate firms, who will dis­cuss cur­rent and emerg­ing trends in the Caribbean mar­ket. Sub­jects will in­clude risks and stan­dards in val­u­a­tion, as­set man­age­ment and prop­er­ty tax. Sean Tomp­kins, CEO of RICS, will de­liv­er a keynote speech on how in­ter­na­tion­al cap­i­tal mar­kets are shap­ing na­tion­al in­dus­tries and prac­tices.

Melis­sa Salyk, re­gion­al man­ag­er for the Caribbean at RICS, said: "Trinidad is a sig­nif­i­cant econ­o­my and home to RICS' largest mem­ber­ship pop­u­la­tion in the Caribbean. This is an im­por­tant event for our work in the Amer­i­c­as, and fol­lows a num­ber of fo­rums and events to iden­ti­fy and pro­mote best prac­tices."The pan­els and pre­sen­ta­tions will bring to­geth­er many mar­ket lead­ers from all over the re­gion in­clud­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tives from Bar­ba­dos, Ja­maica, Cay­man, Ba­hamas and Turks and Caicos gov­ern­ments.