Bridgetown, Barbados (PAHO) – The Prime Minister of Barbados, Hon. Mia Amor Mottley, today met with Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, during his official visit to the Caribbean country. During the meeting, Dr. Barbosa and Prime Minister Mottley discussed the urgent need to protect health while promoting social and economic development in the […]
St. George’s, Grenada: Several communities are scheduled to benefit from enhanced greenspaces under the Ministry of Mobilisation, Implementation and Transformation’s Visible Transformation Project. The greenspaces are intended to create opportunities for increased social recreation whilst serving to safeguard health and develop our physical environment. Work has already commenced on the repair of the walk-over bridges […]
The Eighth Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Council of Ministers: Human and Social Development (COM: HSD) , hosted by Antigua and Barbuda on April 18, 2023 at the John E. St. Luce Finance and Conference Centre was successfully concluded with the adoption of Key Decisions. The high-level annual meeting was convened under the theme “Touching Lives through Data-Driven Development” […]
The Fifth Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean took place on Thursday, September 29 in the framework of the XIV Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized with UNDP. (September 30, 2022) Authorities from Social Development Ministries and equivalent entities […]
Parenting, Health and Wellness Graduation Ceremony for Byelands and Lacabakay Communities. Grenada, July 30th, 2021 – On Wednesday July 28th, 2021, the Ministry for Social Development, Housing and Community Empowerment, under the Grenada Spotlight Initiative, hosted a National Parenting Programme Graduation Ceremony. The programme is a national initiative which seeks to support, educate and empower […]
Social protection systems are coming under considerable pressure with the implementation of mitigation strategies to control the spread of COVID-19 in the Caribbean. Efforts to mitigate the negative effect of the pandemic on the well-being of those most at risk are now underway across the Caribbean. Attention is being given in particular to those most […]
At the OAS, Member States praise IICA’s contributions to economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean Following the presentation made by the Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) on his agency’s work in 2018, the Ambassadors and High-level Representatives to the Organization of American States (OAS) of […]
