Note from the Scientific Committee
Over 130 contributions (including Plenary and Invited presentations) were submitted to this Conference of which over 20 opted for Poster presentation and the others for Oral presentation. The standard of the submissions was excellent as befits a Conference celebrating its 21^st occurrence.
The papers were grouped into four themes to help stream the presentations. These were:

• T1: Innovation In Food Technology, Agriculture, Agro-processing for Sustainable Development
• T2: Novel Materials, Catalysts, Fundamental and Applied Sciences.
• T3: Computer Science, Modelling, Information Technology, Engineering
• T4: Science for Sustainable Development

The papers encompassed the work from a wide range of institutions, government and non-government organisations from within Jamaica, the Caribbean region, North and South America, etc.
We gratefully acknowledge our colleagues who have made this Conference possible with their research work and written contributions. We would like as well to express our deep appreciation to the Conference Organising Committee and those who offered support in reviewing papers for these Proceedings.

Prof Kit Fai Pun and Prof Robert J Lancashire

Scientific Committee Chair and Co-Chair

The 21^st CAS-2018 Biennial Conference

November 2018