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NCDs under focus in Barbados

The Forum of ‘Key Stakeholders on NCDs: Advancing the NCD Agenda in the Caribbean’, now underway in Bridgetown, Barbados, is a high level meeting were health leaders from throughout the Caribbean are discussing actions to intensify efforts to tackle chronic diseases and their risk factors.

According to the current trends, and despite the efforts implemented to reduce the impact of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and address their risk factors, the Caribbean countries will not meet the goal of educing NCD deaths by 25 per cent by 2025.

The Region and US commit to strong joint citizen security measures

Governments of the Caribbean and the United States agreed to undertake a number of security-related priority actions at a High Level Security Cooperation Dialogue, held in The Bahamas, 4 June, 2015.

The Nassau Commitment for Citizen Security in the Caribbean, issued following the meeting,  requires the Region and the US to, among other things, “address the illicit trafficking of firearms at the national, bilateral and regional level by all Caribbean States and international partners”

Specific actions required include:

Red Cross builds just six houses with $500 million after Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Monday June 8, 2015 – The Red Cross has been called to account for its operation in Haiti, after reports emerged claiming that the charity had built just six houses in the impoverished country since the January 2010 earthquake, despite raising almost half a billion dollars in donations.

The Red Cross was among the many organisations to take part in the relief effort following the devastating 7.0 magnitude quake that killed over 220,000 people and displaced thousands more.

CKLN-C@ribNET -  Part of the Global MAGIC Project

Caribbean academics and researchers are now able to be part of a network of worldwide collaborators with access to collaboration tools, as well as a means to application-sharing over the next 24 months as a European Commission supported project called MAGIC has begun.

CARICOM critical to Coalition administration’s foreign policy –President Granger tells T&T-based WIN TV

THE A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government will be prioritising regional integration,   President David Granger told Trinidad-based media entity, WIN TV, on Saturday during an interview.Asked about future cooperation between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, the president said that as someone who studied in that country, he was very grateful and respectful of the hospitality shown to him.

Saint Lucians on heat stroke alert as drought conditions persist

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Friday May 5, 2015 – St. Lucia’s Ministry of Health has put the public on alert for increased risk of heat stroke and other heat related illnesses in light of the continuing drought conditions affecting the island.

Heat stroke, also known as sunstroke, is a severe illness caused by the body overheating, usually as a result of prolonged physical exertion in high temperatures.

Beyond Ebola, laying foundations for Caribbean Regional Health Security

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, June 4, 2015:  Diseases do not recognise borders, and as such, communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics pose a major threat to health, tourism, social and economic development in every country in the Caribbean region. 

In light of this, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), this week, hosted the first Caribbean Regional Health Security (CRHS) Meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad, which focused on mechanisms to strengthen the Region’s ability to respond to new and emerging threats. 

Influx of gun, youth hopelessness must be tackled – CARICOM Chair at Security Dialogue

A problem that is of special concern to us is the continuing influx of guns, and the increase in gun-related criminality, not only in The Bahamas but throughout the region. I am convinced that there is a great deal more that we can and should be doing to fight this common menace.

As a country that produces the guns that end up taking innocent lives and causing terror in our communities, we implore the United States to become more proactive in controlling the export of guns. We implore the United States to step up the policing of its own borders against arms traffickers.

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