education

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Director of Human and Social Development in the CARICOM Secretariat, Myrna Bernard is advocating for formal education on Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

In a presentation to the two-day meeting of the Bureau of Women’s/Gender Affairs in Georgetown, Guyana on Wednesday, Ms Bernard told gender directors and coordinators that they should consider more seriously the introduction of GBV in the Health and Family Life Education curriculum, a curriculum which was intended to address violence in the schools context.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Eighteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) which focussed on Education and Health was convened under the theme_ “Winds of change_ Education and Health collaborating to advance Human and Social Development” was held at the Ritz Carlton, Golf and Spa, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 3-4 June 2009.

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(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  The Eighteenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) which focussed on Education and Health was convened under the theme_ “Winds of change_ Education and Health collaborating to advance Human and Social Development” was held at the Ritz Carlton, Golf and Spa, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 3-4 June 2009.

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(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.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Second Meeting of the Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries opened today, Monday 1 June, in Suriname, with the pressing issue of the future of Caribbean Cultural Industries high on the agenda.

The meeting observed and noted that for the Caribbean Cultural Industries to bloom successfully, artists, governments and institutions needed to play their respective roles.

(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 United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Belize’s Attorney General and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, the Honourable Wilfred Elrington has called for a “fundamental change” in the country’s approach to education.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Seventeenth Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) opened today (17 November 2008) with a strong consensus that education, the driver of national and regional development is the most critical response to the social and economic global challenges now confronting the Region.

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana)  Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Education, the Hon Betrand Joseph has joined the band of Caribbean Community Ministers who are calling for greater collaboration and pooling of resources within the Community.

It is my pleasure to participate in this symposium on education and to share this panel with such distinguished speakers. This discussion could not be timelier. We in CARICOM Community are currently re-examining the scope and effectiveness of our overarching philosophy "education for all". In New York, it is clear that you are grappling with the reality of the principle of "no child left behind" especially its implications for poor black and Latino children, among whom I am sure are some descendants from the Caribbean.