Highlights in this issue include - Recommendations of the 8th SPAW STAC; launch of the CARI’MAM project; GCFI Session (5 - 9 November 2018); Coral Restoration Consortium, Managing the Sargassum outbreak in the Caribbean; Summary of Anguilla Workshop (4 - 7 February 2019); Honduras is our 17th Contracting Party; SPAW-RAC’s new location; Introducing new SPAW RAC colleagues