KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) – A sexual and reproductive health information programme, to teach parents how to talk to their children about sex, is among several strategies proposed by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in addressing adolescent pregnancy. The strategy is one of five elemen...

Caribbean Experts seek to develop regional standards for adolescent friendly health services  Issues relating to adolescent sexual and reproductive health remain sensitive and controversial within the Caribbean. Many parents and adults mistakenly believe that even exposure to comprehensive sex...

Six strategic action areas were agreed as critical for the Caribbean in achieving substantive gender equality and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Honourable Volda Lawrence, Minister of Social Protection Guyana at the 40th Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in...

ADOLESCENT pregnancy in the Caribbean could decline by 20 per cent between 2015 and 2019 if an initiative by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) succeeds. Last year, UNFPA and Caricom unveiled a strategic framework aimed at reducing the number of unwante...

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)     Ambassador John W. Ashe, President of the 68th Session of the General Assembly, and Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund will lead a high level delegation to Trinidad and...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The CARICOM Secretariat is partnering with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) and the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) for the Caribbean Forum on Population, Migra...

Over the years I have learnt to take up any offer to hold hands with the media with a hint of trepidation. But this time around I feel safer as the chaperone is the United Nations. And even though not the blue helmets of the peacekeeping force, the United Nations Population Fund grants me enough cov...

Over the years I have learnt to take up any offer to hold hands with the media with a hint of trepidation. But this time around I feel safer as the chaperone is the United Nations. And even though not the blue helmets of the peacekeeping force, the United Nations Population Fund grants me enough cov...

Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ms Marisela Padron and other Representatives of the United Nations Population Fund Excellencies, Ambassadors and High Commissioners accredited to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Plenipotentiary Representatives to CARICOM Other Members ...

Dr. Edward Greene, Assistant Secretary General CARICOM Secretariat; Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, Deputy Secretary-General, CARICOM; Dr. Dennis Benn, Michael Manley Professor, Public Affairs and Public Policy, UWI, Mona Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, Current economic inte...