The Caribbean Community Action Plan for Social Development and Crime Prevention 2009-2013 (CSDP) Action Plan’s main objective is to prevent and reduce levels of violence and crime in Member States. It underscores the need for the integration of crime prevention considerations into all relevant social and economic policies and programmes, including those addressing employment, education, health, housing and urban planning, poverty, social marginalisation and exclusion with particular emphasis placed on communities, families, children and youth at risk.
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Adopted At The Twenty-fourth Intersessional Meeting Of The Conference Of Heads Of Government Of Caricom, 18-19 February 2013, Port - Au-prince, Republic Of Haiti
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Crime has become one of the main challenges threatening economies and livelihoods in Caribbean countries, but the right mix of policies and programmes can halt the problem, according to the Caribbean Human Development Report 2012.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Trinidad and Tobago is set to host the next national consultation on youth gangs and gang violence on Friday, November 25.
This is the fourth country earmarked for the pilot intervention on youth gangs and gang violence - the other three being Belize, Guyana and St Kitts and Nevis.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Dr Heather Johnson, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Deputy Programme Manager, Youth Development says, young people who are constantly exposed to violence invariably develop complex psychosomatic illnesses which very often lead to other chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, mental illnesses and heart diseases.
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The third leg of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) National Consultations on Gangs and Gang violence project opened in St Kitts and Nevis on Monday with a call from that country’s Minister of Social Development Culture and Gender Affairs Honourable Marcella Liburd for “traditional shapers of society “to reassert their role in order to mitigate the culture of youth gangs and violence which has pervaded the society.