The Project Management Institute, Southern Caribbean Chapter (PMI SCC) was chartered in 1999 and was registered as a non-profit organisation in Trinidad and Tobago in June 2001.

Additionally, PMI SCC is a chartered component of the Project Management Institute (PMI). The world’s leading not-for-profit project management professional association, with over 269,000 members in over 170 countries worldwide.

• To promote and institutionalize Project Management in Trinidad and Tobago and the Southern Caribbean. Through the advancement of the Project Management discipline.
• To become the knowledge authority on Project Management in Trinidad and Tobago and the Southern Caribbean.
• To aid in establishing the use of common Project Management jargon in all fields and sectors of the economy.
• To encourage greater eagerness to belong to this professional body through an improved image for PMI SCC.
• To foster common knowledge of Project Management as a discipline and as a career option.
• To become a body that could assist and/or has input into National and Regional Programmes and Projects both in the public and private sector.