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COHSOD SHOULD PROVIDE STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH AND EDUCATION
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) It is the duty of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) to provide strategic leadership in health and education in the face of the challenges posed by global crises. This was the challenge laid down by the Honourable Rudyard Spencer, Minister of Health of Jamaica to his colleague Ministers…
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JAMAICA TO HOST COHSOD AND ECOSOC MEETINGS, HEALTH AND EDUCATION PRIORITIES
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts to in preparation for a meeting of the…
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CARICOM SECRETARIAT TO HELP MEMBER STATES TACKLE DRUG PROBLEM
The Caribbean Community Secretariat is seeking to empower CARICOM Member States to tackle more effectively the worsening illicit drug problem within the Caribbean through the development and subsequent implementation of National Anti Drug Strategies and Plans. To this end the Secretariat has collaborated with the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States (CICAD/OAS, the Saint Lucia…
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CARICOM TO COMPLETE DRAFT STANDARDS FOR DRUG TREATMENT PRACTITIONERS BY NOVEMBER
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Regional Meeting on Standards of Care for Treatment and Rehabilitation Facilities for Substance Abusers rolled out an ambitious timeline for the completion of its first handbook that will establish the standards for practitioners in drug treatment and care facilities in the Region. The Meeting which ended on 4 March in Montego Bay, Jamaica…
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FEATURE ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MS. CHRESELDA ST. JUSTE, DEPUTY PERMANENT SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF HEALTH, SAINT LUCIA, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG STRATEGIES AND PLANS, 29 APRIL-1 MAY 2009, CASTRIES, SAINT LUCIA
On behalf of the Government and people of Saint Lucia, I am pleased to welcome our regional delegates to this CARICOM – OAS – CICAD – EU supported Workshop. For the next four days, we extend to you the keys to the conference of the future as change agents to a new approach in combating drug abuse in our respective…
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY DR. EDWARD GREENE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL, HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY SECRETARIAT, AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO MARK THE THIRD YEAR OF THE CARIBBEAN ACCREDITATION AUTHORITY FOR EDUCATION IN MEDICINE AND OTHER HEALTH PROFESSIONS, 13-15 MAY 2007, ROSE HALL, JAMAICA
It is my great pleasure to represent the Caribbean Community Secretariat and to bring you greetings on behalf of the Secretary-General, H.E. Mr Edwin Carrington and indeed the entire Caribbean Community. When the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions was inaugurated on July 14, 2004 in Kingston, Jamaica, it marked a watershed in a process…
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ADDRESS BY H.E. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON, SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM), TO THE NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, 15 SEPTEMBER 2006, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Prime Minister The Hon Patrick Manning The Hon John Rahael, Minister of Health Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of UWI and UN Special Envoy to the Caribbean on HIV/AIDS Members of the Diplomatic Corps Other Officials Ladies and Gentlemen It is my pleasure to bring you greetings on behalf of the CARICOM Secretariat and indeed the entire CARICOM Family. I take…
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CARICOM Youth Ambassadors Examine Biodiversity, Healthy Lifestyle Project In Central Guyana
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) A group of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors (CYA)are presently in Guyana working with their peers from across the Region to develop strategies to fight against HIV/AIDS. This they are doing while at the same time observing Guyana’s biodiversity, by journeying to the central part of the country for a three-day visit to the…
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Caribbean Charter On Health and Ageing to be launched at COHSOD Opening
A range of social issues influencing life in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will be addressed when CARICOM Ministers on the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) meet in Guyana on the 20th and 21st October, 1999. The Third Meeting of The Council will address matters relating to the Free Movement of Skills and People in the Region, and Sport…
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