The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat has launched a competition to design the official logo for the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS). The competition to create the SCCS logo is one of the activities to mark the Year of Statistics, which is being observed in 2025 under the theme ‘Improving Lives through Statistics, Strengthening and Improving Together’.
Nationals of CARICOM Member States, 18 and older, can submit entries to the competition, which closes on 5 September 2025. The winner will receive an Apple MacBook Pro M4 Max 16, which will be presented at the 50th Meeting of the SCCS in Curacao in October.
Entries to the competition should be sent to sccs.logocompetition@caricom.org, addressed to the Caribbean Community Secretariat for the attention of Mr. Halim Brizan, Director, Regional Statistics Programme, and copied to Mr. Dike Noel, Manager, Communications at communications@caricom.org
Regional Logo Competition Rules and Guidelines
Regional Logo Competition Entry Form
About the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS)
The Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) was established in 1974 and was endorsed the same year by the inaugural meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the expanded Caribbean Community. The SCCS serves as the highest decision-making body for statistical activities within CARICOM. Its objective is to “foster increased recognition of the importance of adequate statistical services to the countries of the Region; to widen the scope and coverage of statistics data collection; and to improve the quality, comparability, and timeliness of statistics produced.”
The SCCS comprises Directors and Chief Statisticians of CARICOM Member States and Associate Members and plays a pivotal role in advancing statistical development. It is responsible for establishing common frameworks, promoting the adoption of regional statistical standards and harmonising concepts and methodologies across Member countries. Through the implementation of a common Regional Statistics Work Programme (RSWP), the SCCS ensures the production of high-quality, harmonised statistics to support the planning, monitoring and evaluation of development initiatives throughout CARICOM.
About the Regional Statistics Programme
The Regional Statistics Programme (RSP) of the CARICOM Secretariat holds responsibility for strengthening the statistical capacity in Member States and at the Secretariat to provide harmonised, high-quality statistical information for decision-making, and to guide, monitor and assess human and economic development in the Community and specifically in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).
Capacity-building, the promotion of Centres of Excellence, building statistics systems, and developing and reinforcing frameworks to support data collection, including in collaboration with International Development Partners,are key components of the work of the RSP. The work is guided by the Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS), which is the master plan to strategically support the modernisation and transformation of the CARICOM Statistical System (CSS) while ensuring alignment with regional and national priorities.
